Most Admired Architecture Schools

Architecture firms and other organizations depend on talented, qualified people. Leaders and hiring managers in these types of organizations have a strong interest in the education and preparation of students who may become employees one day. Through hiring and working with graduates of many different programs, the leaders and hiring managers also can also offer a perspective on the relative strengths of architecture schools and how well graduates are prepared for professional practice. Below are the most admired architecture schools from the DesignIntelligence 2019 School Rankings Survey.

Undergraduate

School Name	2018-19	2019-20
Cornell University	1	1
Rhode Island School of Design	6	2
Rice University	2	3
Cooper Union	5	4
Syracuse University	4	5
Virginia Tech	8	6
Pratt Institute	7	7
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	3	8
University of Texas, Austin	10	9
Southern California Institute of Architecture	9	10
Carnegie Mellon University	11	11
Auburn University	13	12
Pennsylvania State University	19	13
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	14	14
University of Southern California	12	15
Illinois Institute of Technology	15	16
Tulane University	16	17
University of Notre Dame	18	18
University of Oregon	17	19
Boston Architectural College	21	20
California State Polytechnic University Pomona	20	21
Iowa State University	23	22
University of Arizona	25	23
Woodbury University	22	23
University of Miami	24	25
NewSchool of Architecture & Design	26	26
North Carolina State University	30	27
University of Arkansas	28	28
California College of the Arts	26	29
New Jersey Institute of Technology	35	30
University of Houston	29	31
New York Institute of Technology	31	32
Oklahoma State University	32	33
University of Tennessee, Knoxville	32	34
City College of New York	34	35
Drexel University	36	36
University of Oklahoma	40	37
Mississippi State University	37	38
University of North Carolina, Charlotte	41	39
Louisiana State University	39	40

Graduate

School Name	2018-19	2019-20
Harvard University	1	1
Columbia University	2	2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3	3
Yale University	5	4
Cornell University	4	5
Princeton University	6	6
Rice University	7	7
Rhode Island School of Design	19	8
University of Pennsylvania	11	9
University of California, Berkeley	8	10
University of Virginia	18	11
University of Texas, Austin	12	12
Virginia Tech	15	13
University of Michigan	10	14
Washington University, St. Louis	16	15
Syracuse University	13	16
Southern California Institute of Architecture	9	17
Pratt Institute	17	18
University of California, Los Angeles	14	19
Clemson University	22	20
Georgia Institute of Technology	24	21
Savannah College of Art & Design	25	22
University of Cincinnati	23	23
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS	20	24
Illinois Institute of Technology	26	25
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	28	26
University of Southern California	21	27
Pennsylvania State University	40	28
University of Oregon	30	29
Parsons School of Design	39	30
University of Notre Dame	35	31
Tulane University	31	32
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	34	33
Ohio State University	27	34
Texas A&M University	29	35
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	32	36
Boston Architectural College	36	37
University of Washington	37	38
Arizona State University	37	39
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS	33	40