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ACSA Membership

ACSA connects you with a powerful community of architectural educators, scholars, and design leaders across North America and beyond. By becoming a member, you’re joining a network of changemakers committed to advancing teaching, research, and the future of the built environment.

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ACSA membership offers a wide array of benefits that enhance your institution’s visibility, influence, and engagement in the architectural education community.

  • Advocacy: ACSA serves as the collective voice of architectural education, by representing member interests, promoting their work, and ensuring their perspectives are heard in national and international dialogues that shape architectural education.
  • Institutional Visibility: Member schools are featured on StudyArchitecture.com, a leading resource for prospective students.
  • Faculty Advancement: ACSA supports faculty at every career stage.Our annual awards, competitions, and leadership opportunities such as serving on the board or other committees are open to member school faculty only.
  • Scholarly Programs: ACSA typically hosts four conferences per year, providing faculty opportunities for peer-reviewed presentations and administrators the chance to connect and share best practices. ACSA membership provides discounted registration to conferences and opportunities for serving as a peer reviewer.
  • Student Engagement: Students have access to national and international design competitions, opportunities to present and publish their work, and exposure through platforms like the StudyArchitecture and IMADETHAT Instagram page, which reaches thousands of viewers weekly.
  • Research and Networking: ACSA offers access to robust research initiatives and data on architectural education, and connects over 7,000 faculty members educating more than 40,000 students across member schools.
  • Community: ACSA fosters a supportive network of educators. Through regular caucuses and online discussions, members collaborate to address challenges and share solutions across the academic landscape.
Institutional Membership

Link to: NAAB/CACB Accredited Programs Membership

Accredited Members

Accredited Members of the ACSA are institutions in the United States or Canada that offer at least one architecture degree program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in the US or the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB).

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Link to: Candidate Members

Candidate Members

Candidate Members are institutions in the United States or Canada that are actively pursuing accreditation by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in the US or the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) for a professional degree program in architecture but do not yet have such accreditation.

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Link to: Affiliate Members

Affiliate Members

Colleges, universities, and community colleges who are not accredited or currently seeking accreditation by National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in the US or the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB).

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Questions
ACSA Membershp

For information about joining ACSA or to discuss the various membership levels, please contact Danielle Dent.

Danielle V. Dent
Senior Director of Membership, Marketing and Publications
202-785-2324
ddent@acsa-arch.org

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