Career Resources

Pave your path into the built environment professions

Your preparation as a professional architect, urban planner or real estate developer starts from day one at the School of Architecture and Planning. Visit with our career development and advising team for tips on building your portfolio, internship searches or mock interviews. Meet leaders from top firms and employers across the built environment professions through meet-and-greets and offsite treks. Pair up with one of our alumni mentors to build deep professional connections and gain valuable career-building advice.

Career Advisement
8/14/25
Ayla Abiad (MArch '12) is an architectural designer at AE7 and founder of Build a Bridge, a nonprofit organization that assists refugees and new immigrants. Ayla will be particularly able to help international students with questions about working in the US, OPT, visas, etc.
Find Professional Opportunities
1/14/25
Build Your Network
6/9/23
From in-house presentations by top employers and weekly public lectures by distinguished practitioners to our alumni-driven mentoring program and student leadership organizations, you'll find plenty of opportunities here to establish valuable, meaningful professional connections.

Our Alumni

"I left the School of Architecture and Planning with a deeper appreciation of the power of people in placemaking, both the seen and unseen. I work every day knowing that the future is for those that design the policies and processes that govern them."
2/15/20
Shawntera Hardy, MUP '04
Co-founder, Civic Eagle
"The ability to come up with practical ways to engage the general public in terms they can understand is a valuable and essential asset to any preservation organization. During my time at UB, I learned practical solutions and ways to address this."
10/1/19
Katharine Hewlings (MS Arch '18)
Historic Buildings and Structures Survey Coordinator, History Nebraska
"I decided to combine my planning skills and technical training in community development with public health to create the concept of healthy places for healthy people."
11/21/19
Dean S. Seneca (BAED '90)
Senior public health specialist and CEO, Seneca Scientific Solutions+ LLC, Buffalo, NY
A practicing architect, Martinez also works actively to raise awareness of architecture as a career path for traditionally marginalized communities.
10/10/19
Ingrid Martinez (MArch '17, BS Arch '16)
Architectural Designer, Clark Patterson Lee
"Real estate development is a tool, a potentially powerful tool, that can effectuate meaningful change in society, in cities, towns and communities, and in the lives of individuals."
2/8/21
Connor Kenney (MSRED '18)
Real Estate Developer, SAA/EVI.
"I adore working toward a common goal. There's a can-do kind of spirit, a lightness at Studio Gang."
5/20/19
Maciej Kaczynski (BS Arch '06)
Project Leader, Studio Gang (Chicago)
"We provide a space for people who don't usually have a platform to express their opinions and ideas...particularly young and emerging planners."
2/25/19
Byron Nicholas (MUP '13, BAED '11)
Creator of Black + Urban; Supervising Transportation Planner, Hudson County, NJ
As a researcher with China's Development Research Center in Beijing, Xuan Sun brings urban planning solutions to China's rapidly urbanizing cities.
9/3/19
Xuan Sun (MUP '13)
Researcher, Development Research Center of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China