Rating the Architecture Schools: International Comparisons
The Good Oil
Every two years we rank all the accredited architecture schools in the English-speaking world as research institutions: the best and the worst, top to bottom. Read about it here. We supply this information freely (eat your heart out Design Intelligence).
International comparisons
This chart uses the data from our 2007 survey. It shows the median research scores of the architecture schools, grouped by nation. The USA may have the best schools on the earth, but it also has a huge amount of duds. Fully one-half of all the USA's schools are crowded in that tiny space below that orange median bar. Think of it this way: were you to choose an American architecture school at random, it would have a research score of one. Were you to do the same in Canada, you would be attending a school with a score of almost four.
Median research scores of the architecture schools, grouped by nation. Orange bar indicates median score.