Rating the USA's Architecture Schools as Researchers: 2007

The Good Oil

Every two years we rate the world's architecture schools on their research performance. 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.

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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. And 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

University	Median Research Score
Columbia University	31
Princeton University	19
Cooper Union	16
Harvard University	16
University of Pennsylvania	11
University of California, Berkeley	10
Rice University	9
Yale University	8
University of Notre Dame	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5
University of California, Los Angeles	5
Northeastern University	5
University of Maryland	5
Carnegie Mellon University	4
Tulane University	4
University of Miami	4
University of Minnesota	4
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee	4
University of Southern California	3
University of Texas at Austin	3
Rhode Island School of Design	3
Ohio State University	3
University of Washington	3
Pratt Institute	2
University of Michigan	2
University of Cincinnati	2
University of Virginia	2
University at Buffalo, SUNY	2
Drexel University	2
Arizona State University	2
Florida International University	2
Iowa State University	2
University of Illinois at Chicago	2
University of Houston	2
Southern Polytechnic State University	2
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	2
University of New Mexico	2
Washington University in St Louis	2
Ball State University	1
Georgia Institute of Technology	1
University of Colorado	1
Cornell University	1
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	1
Catholic University of America	1
Florida A&M University	1
Kansas State University	1
New Jersey Institute of Technology	1
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1
Syracuse University	1
Texas Tech University	1
University of North Carolina - Charlotte	1
University of Kansas	1
University of Oregon	1
University of Tennessee, Knoxville	1
University of Texas at Arlington	1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	1
Washington State University	1
Miami University	1
California College of the Arts	1
University of Arkansas	1
University of Utah	1
Andrews University	0
Auburn University	0
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	0
Clemson University	0
City College of New York, CUNY	0
Drury University	0
Florida Atlantic University	0
Hampton University	0
Howard University	0
Illinois Institute of Technology	0
Judson College	0
Kent State University	0
Lawrence Technological University	0
Louisiana State University	0
Louisiana Tech University	0
Montana State University	0
Morgan State University	0
Mississippi State University	0
North Carolina State University	0
North Dakota State university	0
NewSchool of Design	0
Norwich University	0
New York Institute of Technology	0
Oklahoma State University	0
Pennsylvania State University	0
Philadelphia University	0
Prairie View A&M University	0
Southern University and A&M College	0
Temple University	0
Texas A&M University	0
Tuskegee University	0
University of Arizona	0
University of Detroit Mercy	0
University of Massachusetts Amherst	0
University of Florida	0
University of Hawaii at Manoa	0
University of Idaho	0
University of Kentucky	0
University of Louisiana at Lafayette	0
University of Oklahoma	0
University of Nebraska - Lincoln	0
University of Texas at San Antonio	0
Wentworth Institute of Technology	0