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The 2024 edition of the annual QS World University Rankings has been released. This year’s ranking is the largest ever, featuring over 1,500 universities across 105 locations around the world. In the subject of Architecture and Built Environment, the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL... View full entry
The 2023 edition of the Best Architecture Masters (BAM) rankings has just been released, featuring a slate of 19 graduate programs from across the world that were selected using an internal methodology by a 15-member “Expert Committee” of academics. American Ivy League institutions once again... View full entry
The Rhode Island School of Design announced its decision to withdraw from the U.S. News & World Report's Best College rankings on February 13, a move that joins more institutions that are turning away from the highly-criticized process. RISD President, Crystal Williams... View full entry
The annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges list has just been released, opening up a fresh channel for the ongoing debate over the value of and methodologies used in ranking institutions of higher education. A focal point of the 2022 rankings is Columbia University, which dropped from 2nd... View full entry
Academic ranking systems, and their methodology, in particular, are once again at the center of a nationwide conversation that has brought together the deans of sixteen prominent architecture schools. In a recently-published joint letter, the signees voice their concern over what they call "lack... View full entry
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... View full entry
The 2022 edition of the QS World University Rankings has been released. The rankings include 230 individual university programs in 47 locations around the world for Quacquarelli Symonds’ (QS) 12th edition of the annual list. Mainstays like MIT, ETH Zürich, the Bartlett, and Harvard... View full entry
Best Architecture Masters Ranking (BAM) has released their list of the top programs of 2021. Harvard GSD’s Master of Architecture II program ranks first for the fourth year in a row. 22 Master’s Degree programs from around the world were selected to be part of the list by BAM’s... View full entry
The 2021 edition of the annual QS World University Rankings by higher education analysis firm QS Quacquarelli Symonds has just been released. The research analyzed nearly 14,000 individual university programs from 1,440 universities across 85 locations around the world. Within the... View full entry
Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings has announced its 2021 list of top universities worldwide. Including over 1,500 universities across 93 countries and regions, THE prides itself as the "largest and most diverse university rankings to date." Within the top schools... View full entry
Best Architecture Masters Ranking (BAM) has released their list of top programs. Coming in at the top for the third year in a row is Harvard GSD's Master's degree in Architecture II program. According to BAM, the top 29 postgraduate programs have been selected and evaluated using their... View full entry
We also survey students, and this year two unexpected results stood out from the 4,000-plus responses we received. First was the 5 percent drop in architecture undergraduate students wishing to go on to graduate school. [...]
The second standout was the answer to the following question: “If there were no barriers, what firm would you want to work for?” The No. 1 response overall was to be self-employed.
— architecturalrecord.com
The DesignIntelligence 2020 architecture school rankings are out! The annual design industry survey asks hiring professionals two basic questions: "What schools do you most admire for a combination of faculty, programs, culture, and student preparation for the profession?”“From which schools... View full entry
The rankings are in! With the upcoming school term quickly approaching, where do the world's master of architecture programs stack up? This year, Best Architecture Masters Ranking (BAM) has released their list of top programs. Coming in at the top once again is Harvard GSD's Master's degree... View full entry
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?”... View full entry
Harvard GSD's Master in Architecture 2 program has been ranked number one on the 2018 BAM (Best Architecture Masters) Ranking. Different postgraduate study programs have been selected from the best architecture schools in the world in this year edition of the QS Ranking by Subjects –... View full entry
