Thursday, 24 March 2016

Top Universities to study Architecture

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.

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