We present an overview of TOP-100 best architectural universities in the world for foreign students! Architecture courses focus on the technological, design, cultural, historical aspects of the subject, and lectures on history and theory will take place alongside art and 3D design. This will give students a better approach to learning about every component of the profession.
High school graduates who want to become an architect can earn a Bachelor of Architecture degree (B. Arch. program), which usually takes five years. Pre-professional bachelor's degree programs in architectural studies or construction management take four years.
Career options for university graduates with the study of architecture:
- Urban planner
- Landscape Designer
- Architect
- Restorer
- Interior designer
- Artist
- Researcher
- Building Inspector
- Industrial designer.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Architecture
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | The Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL | 97,4 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 95,4 |
| 3 | Delft University of Technology | 93,2 |
| 4 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 91,9 |
| 5 | Manchester School of Architecture | 89,2 |
| 5 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 87,6 |
| 6 | Harvard University | 87,4 |
| 7 | Politecnico di Milano | 87,3 |
| 8 | Tsinghua University | 86,8 |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 86,7 |
| 10 | University of Cambridge | 83,7 |
| 11 | EPFL | 82,9 |
| 12 | The University of Hong Kong | 82,2 |
| 13 | Tongji University | 82,1 |
| 14 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 81,3 |
| 15 | The University of Tokyo | 80,8 |
| 16 | Columbia University | 79,3 |
| 17 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 79,2 |
| 18 | RMIT University | 78,2 |
| 19 | Cornell University | 77,7 |
| 20 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | 77,6 |
| =21 | Politecnico di Torino | 77,4 |
| =21 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | 77,4 |
| 23 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 77,2 |
| =24 | Technical University of Munich | 76,9 |
| =24 | The University of Melbourne | 76,9 |
| 26 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) | 76,1 |
| 27 | The University of Sydney | 76,0 |
| =28 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | 75,8 |
| =28 | University of Oxford | 75,8 |
| =30 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 75,7 |
| =30 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 75,7 |
| 32 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 75,6 |
| 33 | Stanford University | 75,4 |
| 34 | Tianjin University | 75,2 |
| 35 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 75,1 |
| 36 | Seoul National University | 75,0 |
| 37 | KU Leuven | 74,6 |
| 38 | The University of Sheffield | 74,3 |
| =39 | Aalto University | 72,9 |
| =39 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | 72,9 |
| =39 | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | 72,9 |
| =39 | University of Toronto | 72,9 |
| 43 | University of British Columbia | 72,7 |
| =44 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 72,6 |
| =44 | Princeton University | 72,6 |
| =44 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 72,6 |
| =44 | University of Pennsylvania | 72,6 |
| 48 | Peking University | 72,5 |
| 49 | Yale University | 72,3 |
| 50 | University of Texas at Austin | 72,2 |
| 51-100 | Cardiff University | |
| 51-100 | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 51-100 | Chalmers University of Technology | |
| 51-100 | City University of Hong Kong | |
| 51-100 | Curtin University | |
| 51-100 | Hanyang University | |
| 51-100 | Harbin Institute of Technology | |
| 51-100 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | |
| 51-100 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | |
| 51-100 | Korea University | |
| 51-100 | Kyoto University | |
| 51-100 | Loughborough University | |
| 51-100 | Lund University | |
| 51-100 | McGill University | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | |
| 51-100 | Newcastle University | |
| 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | |
| 51-100 | Purdue University | |
| 51-100 | Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | |
| 51-100 | RWTH Aachen University | |
| 51-100 | Sapienza University of Rome | |
| 51-100 | Southeast University | |
| 51-100 | Technische Universität Wien | |
| 51-100 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | |
| 51-100 | Texas A&M University | |
| 51-100 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | |
| 51-100 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
| 51-100 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | |
| 51-100 | The University of Auckland | |
| 51-100 | The University of Edinburgh | |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Chile | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Los Andes | |
| 51-100 | National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) | |
| 51-100 | Universita' IUAV di Venezia | |
| 51-100 | Universität Stuttgart | |
| 51-100 | Universitiy Malaya (UM) | |
| 51-100 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | |
| 51-100 | University of Bath | |
| 51-100 | University of Florida | |
| 51-100 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| 51-100 | University of Nottingham | |
| 51-100 | University of Porto | |
| 51-100 | University of Reading | |
| 51-100 | University of Southern California | |
| 51-100 | University of Technology Sydney | |
| 51-100 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | |
| 51-100 | Yonsei University | |
| 51-100 | Zhejiang University | |
