Master of Science in Green Building

Reach the highest level of green building expertise with a fast-track distance learning Master Degree Program. Green building specialist skills are needed throughout the business world, including nonprofits and government agencies, the construction and building development industries, and the design professions.

This program fills a vital need in the design professions, and it can put you at the heart of the nation’s new, dominant, long-term growth industry.

The USGBC’s LEED program has made history and will continue to do so, as thousands of buildings, public and private, in every city, will be required to be green certified. This will be one of the few bright spots in the economy in the next few years. As effective as LEED is, it doesn’t pretend to convey expertise in all aspects of green building and sustainable design. That’s left to the schools, but so far such education has been hard to find.

San Francisco Institute of Architecture is the only 100% sustainably focused architecture school with the longest running and most comprehensive ecological design and green architecture programs in the world. San Francisco Institute of Architecture has been offering green building and ecological design degrees for twenty years as a wholly integrated part of its architecture degree programs.

San Francisco Institute of Architecture also offered the first distance learning Green MBA Program. Students at San Francisco Institute of Architecture have the opportunity to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture, ecological design, green building and business administration in sustainability.