School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Shenzhen University, formerly known as the Department of Architecture of Shenzhen University, was established in September,1983; 1In April, 1997, the Department of Architecture, the Department of Civil Engineering, the Department of Environmental Design, the Institute of Architectural Design and Research, and the World Architecture Newspaper merged to form "architectural and civil engineering College". In August 2006, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning was established.

The college offers four undergraduate majors: architecture, urban and rural planning, landscape architecture and geospatial information engineering, and two first-class disciplines: architecture and urban and rural planning.