Have you been wondering where to go study architecture in a world class environment? Are you looking for a place to acquire that first degree, Masters degree or your Doctorate degree?
QS have released the top universities to study the subject of architecture among others. The QS world University Ranking by subject, ranking individual subjects in various Universities. This year (2016) 42 Areas of study were ranked. This ranking according to their website is aimed at helping prospective students to identify the world leading school in their chosen field.
At Archi-appraisal the focus is on the ranking among top universities offering architecture. To a achieve a global standard and acceptable ranking, four components are considered. The four components are combined to reach a conclusion for a school in each of the 42 areas/field of study. The four components are:
1. Academic reputation
2. Employers reputation
3. Research citation per paper
4. H-index
To know what this four components really mean. Click here.
Here below is the list for the top universities offering architecture and Other subject in the Built environment.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/ United States
2. UCL (University College London))/ United Kingdom
3. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)/ United States
4. Delft University of Technology / Netherlands
5. Harvard University / United States
6. University of Cambridge / United Kingdom
7. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology / Switzerland
8. Tsinghua University / China
9. National University of Singapore (NUS)/ Singapore
10. Manchester School of Architecture / United Kingdom
11. The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
12. Columbia University / United States
13. The University of Tokyo / Japan
14. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) / United States
15. Politecnico di Milano / Italy
16. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Hong Kong
17. The University of Sydney / Australia
18. The University of Melbourne / Australia
19. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) / Australia
20. Cornell University / United States
21. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)/ Switzerland
22. Tongji University / China
23. Stanford University / United States
24. KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Sweden
25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / United States
26. University of Pennsylvania / United States
27. University of British Columbia / Canada
28. Georgia Institute of Technology / United States
29. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) / Chile
30. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Spain
31. Seoul National University / South Korea
32. Princeton University / United States
33. University of Toronto / Canada
34. University of Texas at Austin / United States
35. Cardiff UniversityCardiff University / United Kingdom
36. RMIT University / Australia
37. Eindhoven University of Technology / Netherlands
38. The University of Sheffield / United Kingdom
39. Universidade de São Paulo / Brazil
40. Technische Universität München / Germany
41. Yale UniversityYale University / United States
42. Kyoto University / Japan
43. The University of Queensland / Australia
44. The University of Auckland / New Zealand
45. University of Michigan / United States
46. University of Salford / United Kingdom
47. Carnegie Mellon University / United States
48. The University of Newcastle, Australia (UoN) / Australia
49. KU Leuven / Belgium
50. Politecnico di Torino / Italy
51-100. Aalborg UniversityAalborg University / Denmark
51-100. Aalto University / Finland
51-100. Arizona State University / United States
51-100. Chalmers University of Technology / Sweden
51-100. City University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
51-100. Curtin University / Australia
51-100. Griffith University / Australia
51-100. Hanyang University / South Korea
51-100. Korea University / South Korea
51-100. Lund University / Sweden
51-100. McGill University / Canada
51-100. Monash University / Australia
51-100. Nanjing University / China
51-100. National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) / Taiwan
51-100. New York University (NYU) / United States
51-100. Newcastle University / United Kingdom
51-100. Norwegian University of Science And Technology / Norway
51-100. Oxford Brookes University / United Kingdom
51-100. Pennsylvania State University / United States
51-100. Politécnica de Madrid / Spain
51-100. Queensland University of Technology (QUT)/ Australia
51-100. RWTH Aachen University / Germany
51-100. Shanghai Jiao Tong University / China
51-100. Southeast University / China
51-100. Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) / South Korea
51-100. Technische Universität Berlin / Germany
51-100. TU Dortmund University / Germany
51-100. Texas A&M University / United States
51-100. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)/ Hong Kong
51-100. The University of Nottingham / United Kingdom
51-100. Tianjin University / China
51-100. Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) / Argentina
51-100. Universidad de Chile / Chile
51-100. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) / Mexico
51-100. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / Brazil
51-100. Université de Montréal Université de Montréal / Canada
51-100. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)/ Malaysia
51-100. Universiti Malaya (UM) / Malaysia
51-100 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) / Malaysia
51-100. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia / Malaysia
51-100. University of BathUniversity of Bath / United Kingdom
51-100. University of Cape Town / South Africa
51-100. The University of Edinburgh / United Kingdom
51-100. University of Florida / United States
51-100. University of Liverpool / United Kingdom
51-100. University of South Australia / Australia
51-100. University of Southern California / United States
51-100. University of Washington / United States
51-100. University of Waterloo / Canada
51-100. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / United States
Someday I hope a university in Nigeria will be able to make the ranking. For the prospective students out there, Good luck finding admission in any of the institution above.
Signing
Clem.