Gund Hall, photo courtesy of Harvard GSD

What’s in a name? Well if you’re an architecture school your name is closely tied to student success, recognition, and a whole slew of things that range far past traditional academia. Arch Record has released its annual ranking of America’s best architecture schools, an intimidating task, to say the least! Polling more than 280 architectural and engineering offices, the rankings were determined by which schools employers believed best prepared students for professional practice. There were no big surprises in this year’s graduate rankings (Harvard is still tops!). However, Columbia University was named runner-up for the first time, while the biggest movers were SCI-Arc and UVA, coming in sixth and seventh place respectively. You can read more about the rankings, plus an analysis on the state of architectural education over at Arch Record.

1.   Harvard University

2.   Columbia University

3.   Yale University

4.   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5.   Cornell University

6.   Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC)

7.   University of Virginia

7.   University of California, Berkeley

9.   Washington University in St. Louis

10. University of Cincinnati

Click through for the full list of undergraduate school rankings!

Milstein Hall at Cornell University, photo courtesy of OMA

1.   Cornell University

2.   Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC)

3.   Rice University

3.   Syracuse University

5.   California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

6.   University of Texas at Austin

7.   Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

7.   Rhode Island School of Design

9.   Iowa State University

9.   Auburn University

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