The Faculty of Applied Science includes all UBC Engineering activities at both the UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan, as well as the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Community and Regional Planning and Nursing. The Faculty was one of UBC's three founding faculties, admitting some of the University's first students in engineering in 1915. UBC instituted the first degree program in Nursing in the British Empire in 1919, and Architecture was established within the Faculty of Applied Science in 1946.

The Faculty includes  about 300 faculty members and more than 7,200 students. It is supported by an annual budget of approximately $65 million, and the Faculty attracts over $40 million in annual research funding.

The Faculty of Applied Science holds a prominent place within the UBC community; and, through its five professions, it has played an important role in shaping our society, both in British Columbia and beyond. Many of our faculty members have achieved wide international recognition for their outstanding research and teaching.