The Higher Architectural School of Belarus trains architects of a wide profile. University graduates are awarded a diploma with the qualification “architect”, and they receive the right to engage in creative activities in all areas of urban planning and architecture: in design and research institutes and their departments; organizations and enterprises of the construction profile; bureaus and groups licensed to carry out project work; at university departments performing research in the field of architecture; in government bodies governing architectural and urban planning activities at the city, district, regional, and national levels.

The architect shapes the human environment by designing construction, landscape and urban planning objects, each of which is a complex social, artistic, and ecological system.

In the process of obtaining higher education, students master the basic principles and practical skills of designing various types of residential, public and industrial buildings and structures, planning populated areas, and forming urban complexes and ensembles.

The main major discipline in the preparation of a future architect is “Architectural Design”, where scientific and technical knowledge is integrated in the creative process and acquires the character of an integral system. The study of the discipline begins with the 1st year and ends with a diploma project. The main principle of architectural design is a comprehensive method for solving functional-planning, design-technical, compositional-artistic and economic problems in their organic interaction.

Instructional design is closely linked to:

with real design - by involving students within the educational process in fulfilling orders from various design organizations, territorial authorities, the Ministry of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of Belarus, secular and religious public organizations, etc.;
with scientific research - by mastering standard research methods by all students within the framework of compulsory design disciplines, introducing students to planned scientific works of departments and custom research during diploma design;
with the cultivation of wide activity of students - by involving them in participation in various creative projects and competitions (music and dance groups have been created at the faculty);
with extensive international contacts - by attracting students to participate in international exhibitions, competitions, and conferences.

The curriculum includes a comprehensive compositional, artistic, scientific and technical education on a general humanitarian basis. The student studies fundamental and applied general technical and engineering sciences, special architectural disciplines, professional computer programs, courses in the history and theory of art, architecture and urban planning, and also acquires professional skills in drawing, painting and sculpture.

Initial courses provide the student with general humanitarian, artistic, socio-economic and general technical training, allowing him to engage in real design in auxiliary positions.

Senior courses ensure that students acquire deep professional knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for creative solving of architectural problems and development of project documentation. The training ends with the completion of a qualifying thesis (graduation project, including a research one), the successful defense of which allows the graduate to be awarded the qualification “architect”.

After receiving a diploma, a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture has the opportunity to enroll in a master's program in the chosen specialty. The most capable and scientifically inclined architects are accepted into it. It provides for in-depth specialization in the areas of development of architectural and construction projects, architectural and landscape, urban planning, territorial planning objects, interiors, urban design, as well as in the field of managing the development of settlements and territories. Master's studies are completed by completing qualifying work (a project with a developed research component or independent scientific research). After its successful defense, the architect is awarded a Master of Architecture degree.

The faculty constantly trains highly qualified scientific personnel. After completing graduate school, completing and defending qualifying work, the degree “PhD of Architecture” is awarded.

The specifics of the architectural profession, and, consequently, education, require applicants, along with the acquired general educational knowledge, to have a penchant for fine arts, skills in drawing, drafting, developed three-dimensional thinking, a sense of color, harmony, and the ability to be creative. Therefore, applicants, as a rule, need intensive pre-university training, either versatile (college of architecture) or artistic (specialized lyceum, school, courses).