Forget the Rankings, the Best US Architecture Schools for 2013 Are...

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Gund Hall (home of the Graduate School of Design) during Harvard Graduation. Year 2007. Photo CC Wikimedia User Tebici.

Every year, when DesignIntelligence’s latest rankings of the Best US Architecture Schools comes out, most of the anticipation is centered around one question: who’s number 1?

But despite our laser-focus on the rankings, the report is actually much more. It is also a survey of hundreds of design educators and professionals, an invaluable insight into the current state of architecture and architecture education today.

So with this in mind, and with the rankings aside, which universities are really producing students best equipped (and most marketable, in this competitive market) for the architecture profession today? When you look at the data, only two Universities stand out from the pack.

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Cite: Vanessa Quirk. "Forget the Rankings, the Best US Architecture Schools for 2013 Are..." 26 Nov 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/297294/forget-the-rankings-the-best-us-architecture-schools-for-2013-are> ISSN 0719-8884

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