Rating the USA's Architecture Schools as Researchers: 2007

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The Good Oil

Results for our 2007 survey of the research performance of the American architecture schools are shown here. For information on what these numbers mean, read this page. Can't find your school? Find out why. You can also read our rankings of individual professors.

Other assessments

The magazine DesignIntelligence (DI), provides an annual rankings list of American schools. It purports to guide prospective students to the light: you just have to pay them a hefty fee to receive this illumination. Here at archsoc.com, we make no claims about the use or validity of our rankings. We simply put them forward as an indicator of research performance. But we give you the good oil for nothing. DI studies 30 schools at most: we examine every American single school for which data was available, over 100!

2007 rankings

UniversityMedian Research Score
Columbia University31
Princeton University19
Cooper Union16
Harvard University16
University of Pennsylvania11
University of California, Berkeley10
Rice University9
Yale University8
University of Notre Dame5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
University of California, Los Angeles5
Northeastern University5
University of Maryland5
Carnegie Mellon University4
Tulane University4
University of Miami4
University of Minnesota4
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee4
University of Southern California3
University of Texas at Austin3
Rhode Island School of Design3
Ohio State University3
University of Washington3
Pratt Institute2
University of Michigan2
University of Cincinnati2
University of Virginia2
University at Buffalo, SUNY2
Drexel University2
Arizona State University2
Florida International University2
Iowa State University2
University of Illinois at Chicago2
University of Houston2
Southern Polytechnic State University2
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2
University of New Mexico2
Washington University in St Louis2
Ball State University1
Georgia Institute of Technology1
University of Colorado1
Cornell University1
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona1
Catholic University of America1
Florida A&M University1
Kansas State University1
New Jersey Institute of Technology1
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute1
Syracuse University1
Texas Tech University1
University of North Carolina - Charlotte1
University of Kansas1
University of Oregon1
University of Tennessee, Knoxville1
University of Texas at Arlington1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University1
Washington State University1
Miami University1
California College of the Arts1
University of Arkansas1
University of Utah1
Andrews University0
Auburn University0
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo0
Clemson University0
City College of New York, CUNY0
Drury University0
Florida Atlantic University0
Hampton University0
Howard University0
Illinois Institute of Technology0
Judson College0
Kent State University0
Lawrence Technological University0
Louisiana State University0
Louisiana Tech University0
Montana State University0
Morgan State University0
Mississippi State University0
North Carolina State University0
North Dakota State university0
NewSchool of Design0
Norwich University0
New York Institute of Technology0
Oklahoma State University0
Pennsylvania State University0
Philadelphia University0
Prairie View A&M University0
Southern University and A&M College0
Temple University0
Texas A&M University0
Tuskegee University0
University of Arizona0
University of Detroit Mercy0
University of Massachusetts Amherst0
University of Florida0
University of Hawaii at Manoa0
University of Idaho0
University of Kentucky0
University of Louisiana at Lafayette0
University of Oklahoma0
University of Nebraska - Lincoln0
University of Texas at San Antonio0
Wentworth Institute of Technology0
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