The annual Best Architecture Masters (BAM) ranking has just been published for 2022. Featuring some of the world’s most prestigious and competitive graduate programs, the list has been historically dominated by American Ivy League schools as well as other premier British and European universities. The 2022 cohort is no exception, with Harvard GSD’s Master of Architecture II program taking the top billing for the fifth consecutive year.

BAM shares that its rankings are “aimed to help architects and students to get to know the best International Master’s programs available in the world, thanks to our transparent comparative system.”

Using its internal methodology, BAM’s 13-member “Expert Committee” of academics analyzed programs based on 10 educational-performance indicators and 45 sub-indicators. 

Here is the list of BAM's top 17 architecture master’s degree programs in 2022:

1. Harvard GSD
Program: Master of Architecture II
Location: Cambridge, MA 

2. Columbia University
Program: Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design
Location: New York, NY

3. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid + ETH Zurich
Program: Master of Advanced Studies in Collective Housing (MCH)
Location: Madrid, Spain

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Program: Master of Science in Architecture Studies in Urbanism (SMArch Urbanism)
Location: Cambridge, MA

5. Delft University of Technology (TUDelft)
Program: The Berlage Post-master in Architecture and Urban Design
Location: Delft, Netherlands

6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Program: Master of Science in Architecture Studies in Design (SMArchS Design)
Location: Cambridge, MA

7. University College London - Bartlett School of Architecture
Program: Architectural Design MArch (B-pro)
Location: London, UK

8. Princeton University
Program: Postprofessional Graduate Program in Architecture
Location: Princeton, NJ

9. Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)
Program: March in Architecture and Urbanism (DRL)
Location: London, UK

10. Cornell University
Program: Post-Professional Master of Science, Advanced Architectural Design
Location: Ithaca, NY

11. (tied) Politecnico di Milano
Program: Master Architecture and Urban Design
Location: Milan, Italy

11. (tied) Technische Universität München (TUM)
Program: Master of Arts MA in Architecture
Location: Munich, Germany

13. (tied) Technische Universität Berlin (TUBerlin)
Program: Master of Architecture in Typology M-ARCH-T
Location: Berlin, Germany

13. (tied) Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Program: MBArch Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture-Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain

15. Universidad de Navarra
Program: Master's Degree in Theory and Architectural Design
Location: Pamplona, Spain

16. Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Program: M. Arch 2
Location: Los Angeles, CA

17. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Program: M.S. Architecture and Urban Design
Location: Los Angeles, CA