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What are the best colleges to go to graduate school for a major in architecture.

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Jeffrey’s Answer

Many people feel that the school’s name implies prestige education. Don’t fall in to that mind set that you have to go a Yale, Harvard etc. You will get the same education no matter the school. When I attended UCF the architecture history II course explains the timeline. To summarize In reality what every Architecture program follows the same mantra from Harvard’s architecture school. Walter Gropius fled Nazi Germany to the U.S. and later taught at Harvard. He implemented and established the Bauhaus mantra in the U.S. every architect comes from that “bloodline”. In summary find a school you feel comfortable with. There are online program setup to focus strictly on architecture like Academy of Arts University.(expensive but worth a look). In summary you get out what you put in to your school work and career not the other way. If you have more questions post them and I’ll reply.

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Research local, regional and online programs. Look at cost of education, talk with a local architect, they may have a part time job that you can learn the field.
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This is the most well-regarded rankings of architecture schools. Mainly because they take it very seriously and it's real research they do not just some website. Before 2020 they did this by interviewing people in hiring positions. Personally, that's what I like rankings to be, who are they looking to hire! Starting in 2020 they changed it and I think really watered it down and made it less useful. There are some schools that may not be top overall but are very well regarded for a specific aspect of their program. Auburn is a great example with their Rural Studio.
The schools in these rankings I think are going to be more math/sci focused than design-focused with some exceptions. Cal Poly and VaTech are great examples. These also favor large schools with more graduates as more people surveyed will be familiar with their grads. I imagine most all of the top-10 have >100 students per graduating class. That is probably all less true for the M.Arch because reputations and name recognition (for example being an Ivy League) tend to go further.

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13611-top-architecture-schools-of-2019

NAAB also has a listing of all accredited (B.Arch and M.Arch and I think D.Arch) programs
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