Each year for the past 19 years, DesignIntelligence has conducted the same survey across the design industry regarding architecture-school rankings. The number of valid responses from hiring managers of architecture and design-professional firms typically range between 2,600 and 3,200, year over year. But this year was markedly different: we had more than 4,500 valid responses, which may reflect the urgency of improving architectural education. — architecturalrecord.com
DesignIntelligence has been conducting a yearly design industry survey to rank architecture undergraduate and graduate programs for the past 19 years. For this year's ranking DI has changed their primary question of “Which programs are best preparing students for a future in the profession?” to asking two different questions:
Through asking these two questions in the design industry DesignIntelligence has ranked the following schools in the top 10 for 2018.
The Top 10 Architecture Undergraduate Programs
1 Cornell University
2 Rice University
3 Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (SLO)
4 Syracuse University
5 Cooper Union
6 Rhode Island School of Design
7 Pratt Institute
8 Virginia Tech
9 Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
10 University of Texas (U.T.), Austin
The Top 10 Architecture Graduate Programs
1 Harvard University
2 Columbia University
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
4 Cornell University
5 Yale University
6 Princeton University
7 Rice University
8 University of California (U.C.), Berkeley
9 SCI-Arc
10 University of Michigan
DesignIntelligence also put together comparisons of how schools ranked in previous years, skills assessment rankings, a list of the top 25 most admired educators in architecture, interiors, and landscape architecture, and other statistics.
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so they changed it from “best” to “most admired”
Princeton jumps from 22 to 6
So this is the top 10 PR departments in arch education?
Princeton should be Top 10 in every major the university offers. Deal with it!
Definitely. That Syracuse is constantly at the top, puhlease, their grads must be the best at something, professional skills, ain't it.
Syracuse some of the shittiest student work I've ever seen. It baffles me that they're always ranked so high
All of the Syracuse grads I've worked with have been intelligent individuals capable of anything they were tasked with, even if they hadn't learned it in school. But hey, that broad brush suits you.
Um yeah, about that brush. I'm talking about all the Syracuse grads I've encountered; dopes. Egos out the ass, and zero ability to do the basics without a fucking Mensa level tutor.
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