Bachelor in Architecture

Tuition costs 208 USD per year.

Architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne (ENSAB) in Rennes, France, is a three-year bachelor-level program (Licence) taught in French with annual tuition of 178 EUR and a September start. Architecture programs at the école nationale supérieure level train students in the conception, design, and technical realisation of built environments. The first three years of the French architecture curriculum cover architectural design studio, structural systems and building technology, architectural history and theory, urban planning and landscape, and representation techniques including drawing and digital modeling. Studio work is central to architecture education, requiring students to develop design proposals in response to spatial, social, technical, and environmental constraints. Alongside studio, students study the history of architecture from antiquity to the present, the physics of construction, materials and building systems, and the social and cultural dimensions of space. Programs also introduce students to professional practice, legislation, and project management. In France, the full professional qualification in architecture requires a further master's level stage and a professional experience period after the initial three-year degree. The ENSAB in Rennes, a publicly funded national school, prepares students for this longer pathway. Graduates who complete the full cycle work as architects in private practice, public bodies, urban planning agencies, heritage institutions, and construction firms. Rennes, as the administrative and cultural capital of Brittany, provides a rich urban and architectural context for students studying the discipline.