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Welcome to CBE!

Welcome to your online guide for student success. This page is here to direct you through every step of your academic journey, from meeting with an advisor to creating your graduation timeline.

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Sketching Dubs with Dean Cheng 2024.
While you’re here searching for ways to advance your goals, don’t forget to explore your options and have fun. Make sure to check out links to events and group activities. Contribute to our efforts to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion. And remember to attend to your own personal wellness with mental health, disability, and other support services.
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What will you build?

Seattle is a global hub for innovation, and much of that spirit and mindset begins at the UW. At the College of Built Environments, we value the traditions of design and community building. Through mixed discipline studios, travel programs, service learning projects, and research, you’ll build and grow your community in and outside of the classroom.
Build your future

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Student Resources

CBE is dedicated to promoting equitable community collaborations for a more just and beautiful world. As a student, you’re part of our community. Reach out anytime, and let us know how we can help.

Two people looking at a wooden model of a houseInterdisciplinary VisionEvery aspect of built environments is interconnected: Builders begin with plans, designed by architects and landscape architects, part of bigger ideas developed by urban designers and real estate developers. We teach our students to think about the whole process of a project and seek the consultation of other experts.LEARN MORE

Inside of a warehouse spaceFacilities and ResearchThe College of Built Environments is home to over 100 active researchers, and over 65 Principal Investigators (PIs) across the five departments.Topics ranging from arts and culture to carbon sequestration and historic presentation to urban modeling.EXPLORE RESEARCH

Overhead view of tables at a career fair with signs that say, "NOW HIRING"Industry Partners and Opportunities68% of UW students graduate with internship experience, and there are over 12,000 internships posted each year. We encourage the internship experience to help our students build community connections and gain valuable work experience. Explore Opportunities

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are essential to meeting our goal of a more just and beautiful world. The disciplines of the college are fundamentally about envisionsing, planning, designing and building a better future. This necessarily means one that is socially just and equitable. In a context of change and uncertainty, we believe that anything less is unsustainable.
Our Principles

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#1Most Innovative University in the WorldReuters, 201981%of students are employed 
or in graduate school within 6 months of graduation12,000+internship postings 
yearly