Bachelor in Architecture

Tuition is 208 USD per year.

Architecture as a discipline brings together design thinking, technical rigour, and cultural understanding to shape the spaces and structures people live and work in, at scales from individual buildings to entire urban districts. The Architecture programme at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier in Montpellier, France leads to a three-year bachelor's-level qualification taught in French, with annual tuition of 178 EUR and a September start. Students work through architectural design studios that form the backbone of their education, engaging with projects of progressively greater complexity as the programme advances. Technical courses cover structural systems, building materials and their properties, construction methods, and digital tools for design representation and modelling. The history and theory of architecture are studied across periods and geographies, from antiquity through the modern movement to contemporary practice, with attention to how social, technological, and environmental conditions have shaped built form. Sustainability, urban ecology, and the relationship between buildings and their landscapes are addressed as integral to architectural thinking today. Students learn to communicate design work through orthographic drawings, physical models, digital visualisations, and written analytical texts. In the French system, this three-year cycle is the initial stage of architectural education: graduates typically continue to a master's-level programme to obtain the full state diploma required for professional registration and practice as a licensed architect in France. Career directions include architectural offices, heritage conservation, urban planning consultancies, real estate development, and construction project management.