Best Architectural Design Schools in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Architectural Design Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Architectural Design School

The architectural design program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Architectural Design rankings. For our Best Overall Architectural Design School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.

In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Sad to say, we don't have enough info to make a ranking of the top quality colleges for architectural design in the United States. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer architectural design and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Architectural Design by Region

View the Best Architectural Design Schools for a specific region near you.

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Rankings in Majors Related to Architectural Design

Architectural Design is one of 3 different types of General Architecture programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Architectural Design

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.