Pretty impressive list. Don't forget:

Pratt
NJSoA
Parson's
Cooper
CuNY
Steven's (Nastasi's program)

and just for semantic's sake it's GSAAP.

Thanks for adding those schools, in fact it wouldn't hurt to get an idea of how large every MArch program is... so the more entries the better...

I could give statistics for london but I don't know whos interested

its GSAPP - Grad School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

they accept about 80 to the MArch class

you should look at the faculty and their published works to gain insight into the leanings of each school. It also helps to have some idea of your own political perspective to better judge your reaction to these positions. Some people don't discover how they fit into the spectrum until they apply to 5 or 6 of these schools and only get into one. Then you can say "oh this is the kind of young arch. mind I appear to possess." And then it turns out you never wanted to go to such and such school, such and such school is full of Republicans, etc.

Thanks for the correction to my correction. I thought it was Art Architecture and Planning, but I guess im wrong.

To obtain more details about the programs, visit both -- www.naab.org -- and -- www.archschools.org --

Another broader source is -- www.archcareers.org --

Here's some data for a few of the schools you mentioned:

Princeton (Arch School data is on page 2 of the pdf)

Columbia GSAPP

Yale (Arch School enrolment data is a little ways down the page; there is no data however on acceptance rates - but someone told me they accepted about 14% of applicants for fall 2009)

I think a lot of the ideological (for lack of a better word) differences between these programs are exagerated. All of the schools you mentioned are strong, well-rounded programs where you will be forced to think about lots of different aspects of architectural design.

You sometimes hear that 'Columbia is totally cutting edge' while 'Yale is super conservative' and 'Harvard is way corporate' but the reality is that there are a range of different people pursuing different types of design at all of these schools. You would be well positioned to pursue just about any kind of architectural career coming out of any of the programs you mentioned.

That said, schools that have strong Urban Planning departments (MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn) are going to offer more opportunities to work with urban planners and build connections with the planning community. Same goes for fine arts departments (Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Pratt, Cooper, Parsons), landscape architecture departments (UPenn, Harvard), and business schools (Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, MIT).