Industrializations, global warming, and scarcity of natural resources have urged the transition of replacing traditional building materials with renewable and eco-friendly alternatives. Bamboo is emerging as one of the viable green solutions for buildings. Despite workshops, community projects, and trainings conducted to inform the adaptive use of bamboo in building and construction, the understanding of bamboo as a green building material remains unknown as there is limited research in this context. This study intents to reveal the awareness of architecture students on bamboo as a green building material. This study applied quantitative methodology and data collected from twelve items of measurements (IM) in five-point Likert scale was analyzed through SPSS software. Descriptive statistics demonstrated 81% of respondents recognized that bamboo can be used as a building material. Gender and country had no effects on the understanding. Mean score ranked analysis identified the top three highest: IM5, IM10, IM2 and the top three lowest: IM4, IM9, IM11 mean scores indicated the current understanding among respondents. Factor analysis successfully validated Aspect 1: Environment & construction and Aspect 2: Durability as the underlying key aspects that contributed to the status of awareness. Findings of this study can be used as indicators for future workshops to enhance the understanding of bamboo’s adaptability as a building material among architecture students. This study provides insightful discussion for decision makers to substantiate the role of bamboo in building industry.