Bachelor’s Academic Degree:

Architectural Environment Design
The speciality is the first in Bulgaria of its type, issuing bachelor’s diplomas for the qualification of Architect and Designer.
Upon graduation, holders of an Architect and Designer qualification will be competent in providing complex design solutions in the following three fields of architecture and their respective subfields: exterior environment, interior environment and event-environment design. The course inquires into exterior spatial design (design for squares, streets, gardens and recreation spaces), interior design (public, residential and industrial design), and event-and-environment design (design for exhibitions, fairs, public festivities, festivals and other cultural and sports events).
The curriculum is based on the traditions of architectural and creative education, augmented by specific design approaches based on the interdependence between the elements used in environment design. BA graduates can embark on a career at design, architectural and advertising bureaus, housing companies, and state and local administration offices, as well as in the furniture producing industry.
A BA in Architectural Environment Design can pursue further studies through a two-year MA programme with regard to acquiring a MA Architecture diploma.
Furthermore, instruction in Architecture and Architectural Environment Design features guest professors from IUAV (Venice) and MARCHI (Moscow) - universities partnering with Varna Free University under bilateral cooperation agreements.
The speciality of Architecture has been granted national accreditation and is currently in the final phase of being granted notification under Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament, which would give our Architecture diplomas full recognition everywhere in the EU.

Territorial and Landscape Planning
Modern living environment management sees issues in comprehensive spatial planning, open space and natural environment being ever more topical. The newly-established speciality of Territorial and Landscape Planning at Varna Free University meets the ever-increasing demand for specialists who would actively participate in policies on natural environment safety, ecology, regional development, urban governance, urban environment quality, open space design and construction (design for landscape, country and urban parks, streets, squares). These activities have a constantly growing significance on both the European and global level, and are therefore ever more important to European integration processes, working under European programmes, and the implementation of European funds, municipal policies and different forms of public-private partnership.
Graduates from the speciality will have the chance to embark on a career as a designer in the field of architectural, urban and regional planning and design, practising at municipal, regional and state institutions, and providing expert, consulting and other services.

Master of Arts Academic Degree:
 
Architecture
Architecture is a state-regulated speciality and instruction in it is aimed at training students as highly-qualified specialists with a solid practical and theoretical grounding. All architecture graduates can start a career in urban planning, design and construction of residential, public and industrial buildings, resort buildings, and adaptation of architectural monuments, interior and design. Recent graduates can start a job at design bureaus, construction companies, municipal, regional and central administration offices, construction supervision institutions, as well as in architectural and historical heritage conservation, etc. Instruction is carried out in compliance with progressive international trends and the national requirements for the speciality. Also, we enjoy student and lecturer exchange with a number of foreign universities.
The course of study extends over a period of 5 years. In Semester 10, students are given the chance to opt for one of five up-to-date further study programmes: Urbanism, Architecture Management, Architectural Heritage Conservation, Architecture of Tourism and Leisure, and Architecture of Residential, Industrial and Public Buildings and Complexes.

PhD Academic Degree:

• 02.17.03 Synthesis between Architecture and Art. Interior and Architectural Design
• 02.17.05 Architecture of Buildings, Facilities and Components
• 02.17.09 Territorial, Landscape and Urban Planning

The Department maintains cooperation with:

• The Department maintains cooperation with:
• Belgrade State University;
• Odessa State University;
• Maltepe University, Turkey;
• MARCHI, Moscow;
• Georgian Technical University of Tbilisi;
• New Bulgarian University of Sofia;
• UNION University of Belgrade;