In light of the School Rankings 2005 post, I'd like to know what your top ten schools are. As someone mentioned on that post these rankings may be more important to those who have not yet gotten their bachelors.......or in my case, their masters. I'd like to know from a standpoint of working immediately or independently following a March program, what is your top ten schools (specifially graduate programs).
-thanks
everyone's always whining about how their school was slighted and how DI rankings are screwed up so just want to know you think?
And let's make it strictly mature posts (which ether failed to do.)
why is this the worst post ever? it's just asking for opinions.
the only problem with this post is that if everyone doesn't just think that it's a terrible post, then it'll get very long. then too, i'm not sure i could come up with a justifiable list of 10. my top 5 though:
columbia
ucla
sci-arc
mit
penn
of course, as most everyone will be, i'm biased and not an expert. rankings are based on what i've heard from friends who've been/gone there, my personal research while applying to grad schools, and of course personal architectural values.
if nothing else, this post would seem to give some insight in to eachother's design personalities. besides, as we've complained about before, even professional rankings are pretty much worthless other than for entertainment/perspective. this seems no better or worse. i trust you guys' oppinions as much as i do design intelligence.. :)
my opinion, to a certain extent you are who you are, if you're good you will always be good. a great academic setting can make you a little better, but if you are not talented to begin with, you won't be converted into an all-star overnite. that being said, i feel that schools below will provide a great education, and depending on what your interests are, some will be better for you than others, and you will be better for some than others.
my opinion, to a certain extent you are who you are, if you're good you will always be good. a great academic setting can make you a little better, but if you are not talented to begin with, you won't be converted into an all-star overnite. that being said, i feel that schools below will provide a great education, and depending on what your interests are, some will be better for you than others, and you will be better for some than others.
umm... aquaman--how would anyone be able to rank schools? most people here went to one, maybe two programs at the most. all they can really do is give relative rankings to those two. I suppose, though, if enough people respond with their relative rankings of their ugrad and grad schools, maybe we could start putting something together. except (damn!)--most of the best schools don't have ugrad programs, or they are unrelated to the rgad programs.
wherever you like, I suppose. But if we're just ranking them as far as our top choices for ouselves, we can sift back through the "graduate school decision dates" I-IX posts, which contains these lists already.
the best recommendation i could make is to work for a few years after ugrad. that way you'll get experience, and mature a little, before attempting grad school. inevitably you'll have some friends who will go to most of these schools, and you can get their respective opinions, which should be more enlightening that the sea of ones and zeros that is archinect
I am not sure why everyone rates facilities so high. Obviously, they are important, but sorry, having 4 CNC machines instead of 1 does not make it a better school and it certainly doesn't help you become a better architect. That's just one of the reasons I find the ratings such bs.
Personally, ALL that matters is the quality of the students work. Show me what people can do when they leave, what they do while they are there, etc. Everything else is superfluous.
I haven't seen Harvard's work in a while, but that's my first example of a place with great facilities but mediocre student work.
good call trace. as most people say, this is a completely subjective exercise. individual issues like facilities, faculty/research, ability to produce 'professionals', selectivity, etc. can all be (somewhat) objectively ranked, but it's the student work that comes from all these things that integrates the reality of all the different factors.
of course, then you get back to impressions of student work being the most subjective issue of all... :)
#1 school has gotta be Montana State. Can't think of another school that is farther away from a city of pop 1 million +. Design in a rural vacuum. Sweet!
YOUR school rankings
In light of the School Rankings 2005 post, I'd like to know what your top ten schools are. As someone mentioned on that post these rankings may be more important to those who have not yet gotten their bachelors.......or in my case, their masters. I'd like to know from a standpoint of working immediately or independently following a March program, what is your top ten schools (specifially graduate programs).
-thanks
worst. post. ever.
everyone's always whining about how their school was slighted and how DI rankings are screwed up so just want to know you think?
And let's make it strictly mature posts (which ether failed to do.)
why is this the worst post ever? it's just asking for opinions.
the only problem with this post is that if everyone doesn't just think that it's a terrible post, then it'll get very long. then too, i'm not sure i could come up with a justifiable list of 10. my top 5 though:
columbia
ucla
sci-arc
mit
penn
of course, as most everyone will be, i'm biased and not an expert. rankings are based on what i've heard from friends who've been/gone there, my personal research while applying to grad schools, and of course personal architectural values.
if nothing else, this post would seem to give some insight in to eachother's design personalities. besides, as we've complained about before, even professional rankings are pretty much worthless other than for entertainment/perspective. this seems no better or worse. i trust you guys' oppinions as much as i do design intelligence.. :)
my opinion, to a certain extent you are who you are, if you're good you will always be good. a great academic setting can make you a little better, but if you are not talented to begin with, you won't be converted into an all-star overnite. that being said, i feel that schools below will provide a great education, and depending on what your interests are, some will be better for you than others, and you will be better for some than others.
tier 1
princeton
ucla
mit
harvard
tier2
columbia
penn
yale
sciarc
tier3
rice
virginia
michigan
berkeley
my opinion, to a certain extent you are who you are, if you're good you will always be good. a great academic setting can make you a little better, but if you are not talented to begin with, you won't be converted into an all-star overnite. that being said, i feel that schools below will provide a great education, and depending on what your interests are, some will be better for you than others, and you will be better for some than others.
tier 1
princeton
ucla
mit
harvard
tier2
columbia
penn
yale
sciarc
tier3
rice
virginia
michigan
berkeley
umm... aquaman--how would anyone be able to rank schools? most people here went to one, maybe two programs at the most. all they can really do is give relative rankings to those two. I suppose, though, if enough people respond with their relative rankings of their ugrad and grad schools, maybe we could start putting something together. except (damn!)--most of the best schools don't have ugrad programs, or they are unrelated to the rgad programs.
I hate ranking something subjective like design schools. How do you measure what's 'best?' What do you even determine as 'best?'
wherever you like, I suppose. But if we're just ranking them as far as our top choices for ouselves, we can sift back through the "graduate school decision dates" I-IX posts, which contains these lists already.
the best recommendation i could make is to work for a few years after ugrad. that way you'll get experience, and mature a little, before attempting grad school. inevitably you'll have some friends who will go to most of these schools, and you can get their respective opinions, which should be more enlightening that the sea of ones and zeros that is archinect
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here is my ranking: I'm No. 1!!!!!!!!!!
I am not sure why everyone rates facilities so high. Obviously, they are important, but sorry, having 4 CNC machines instead of 1 does not make it a better school and it certainly doesn't help you become a better architect. That's just one of the reasons I find the ratings such bs.
Personally, ALL that matters is the quality of the students work. Show me what people can do when they leave, what they do while they are there, etc. Everything else is superfluous.
I haven't seen Harvard's work in a while, but that's my first example of a place with great facilities but mediocre student work.
I am with heterarchy for my favs, or maybe 43's
columbia
ucla
sci-arc
mit
penn
tier 1
princeton
ucla
mit
harvard
good call trace. as most people say, this is a completely subjective exercise. individual issues like facilities, faculty/research, ability to produce 'professionals', selectivity, etc. can all be (somewhat) objectively ranked, but it's the student work that comes from all these things that integrates the reality of all the different factors.
of course, then you get back to impressions of student work being the most subjective issue of all... :)
#1 school has gotta be Montana State. Can't think of another school that is farther away from a city of pop 1 million +. Design in a rural vacuum. Sweet!
hmmm. that does sound pretty awesome. :) does alaska have a school of architecture?
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