Toronto Ontario M5S 2J5
Canada
Applications now open for MUD & Post-Professional MArch and MLA: October 1, 2025–January 5, 2026. Register for our virtual information session: November 7, 2025, 9–10am (EDT).
Master of Urban Design
The Master of Urban Design (MUD) program at Daniels centres on equity in the built environment, exploring practice-based design as method to address the social and environmental challenges of global urbanization. In this two-year program, students explore connections between urban planning, sustainability, and the social sciences, developing innovative design strategies to rethink the policies, infrastructures and economies that shape cities today. Students complete the MUD program with an individual design-research thesis project.
Post-Professional Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture
The post-professional Master of Architecture (MArch) and post-professional Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) are advanced design-research programs for individuals already holding professional degrees in their respective areas. This one-year program provides a challenging and rigorous forum for those wishing to extend and focus their previous education. The program is centered on a design-research thesis project. Students work closely throughout the program with faculty advisors with expertise in their area of interest and gain insight from leading practitioners, theorists and guest critics.
Applicants should identify research proposals within one of these areas of interest: Computation and Fabrication, Health and Society, Sustainability and Environment, Justice and Action.
Admission requirements
The post-professional programs are open to international and domestic students with professional degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, or in the case of the MUD program, a related field with demonstrated design ability and experience.
Application deadlines
January 5, 2026: Program application payment and transcripts due. January 12, 2026: Supporting documents due (letters of reference, CV, statement of interest, portfolio, and writing sample(s).
More information on admissions and the application process is available on our graduate admissions web page. Contact: graduate@daniels.utoronto.ca.
About the Daniels Faculty
The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto focuses on interdisciplinary training and research in architecture, art and their allied practices, with a mission to educate students, prepare professionals and cultivate scholars who will play a leading role in creating more culturally engaged, ecologically sustainable, socially just and artfully conceived environments.
Located in the heart of Toronto—a hub for creative practice and home to many of Canada’s leading architects, landscape architects, urban designers, foresters, artists and curators, the Daniels Faculty community is incredibly cosmopolitan, hailing from every part of the world and producing work that crosses geographic and cultural boundaries.
