who fucking cares?

since 97 -I still love these Sci-Arc posts

no that i really give a fuck either..but, i guess i was really wondering if sci-arc is revered anywhere at the same level as top ten schools, and if paying that much to go there is really worth it.

it depends on how much money you have. Consider that they rent the building at a very high rate, so more of your education is going towards rent than it might at a more established university.

um, considering that design intelligence ratings are based on surveys sent to "hiring managers from the nation's top corporations, organizations, municipalities, and design firms", their rankings are in no way a fair, accurate and relevant benchmark on the success of an architectural program in the US, as the only purpose they serve is for corporate tools to inflate their ego by giving their alma mater a good ranking.

and honestly, who gives a fuck what the schools rank is anyway? you should go to the graduate program that best suits your interests in architecture, not the one that may or may not look good on your resume. it's not like your going to get a job when you graduate as it is.

and from what i understand of the program at SCIARC, considering it's ranking seems not to align with the spirit of that school...if you want to do wild, wacky, innovative stuff I wouldn't expect rankings from some institutional point of view to be very useful...

This is from 2006 Design Intelligence:

>> Computer applications (page 15)
>> 1. MIT
>> 2. Columbia
>> 3. Harvard / SCI-Arc
>> 5. Cornell / University of Cincinnati

>> Most innovative architecture programs / National (page 20)
>> 1. University of Cincinnati
>> 2. Harvard
>> 3. Cornell
>> 4. SCI-Arc
>> 5. Columbia
>> 6. Rice
>> 7. Kansas State University / MIT / RISD / Syracuse University

>> Most innovative architecture programs / Western schools
>> 1. SCI-Arc
>> 2. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
>> 3. Arizona State / University of Oregon / California College of the
>> Arts / UC Berkeley, USC

>> Architecture Schools Regional Rankings / National (page 18)
>> Graduate
>> 1. Harvard
>> 2. University of Virginia
>> 3. UC Berkeley
>> 4. University of Cincinnati

>> Architecture Schools Regional Rankings / Western schools (page 46)
>> Undergraduate
>> 1. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
>> 2. University of Oregon
>> 3. SCI-Arc (in the 2004 rankings SCI-Arc #5)
>> 4. Cal Poly, Pomona / University of Arizona / USC

>> Graduate
>> 1. UC Berkeley
>> 2. SCI-Arc (in the 2004 rankings SCI-Arc was #9)
>> 3. University of Oregon
>> 4. University of Washington / Washington State University

SCI-Arc is #5 Regional/National

I would second previous posters' comments about the narrowness and general lack of relevance of DI rankings.

That said, since you asked:

For 2009, SCI-Arc was ranked #19 for undergraduate, not listed in the top 20 graduate programs, and not listed in the rankings by area of specialty (research, materials and methods, etc.). The regional rankings aren't listed in the 2009 book.