The Ph.D. Program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a unique, jointly administered program in which students may choose to focus in either Architecture or Landscape Architecture, or to work in both areas in a cross-disciplinary fashion. The School of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Architecture are two of the oldest and most distinguished professional degree programs of their kind in North America. Both benefit from internationally distinguished faculty and from one of the largest academic libraries in the world, with more than ten million volumes and state-of-the-art electronic access to archival and data base information, as well as access to major collections in nearby cities.

The programs emphasize both interdisciplinary study and cross-disciplinary inquiry, drawing upon faculty and resources in a range of campus units as well as in the parent disciplines.