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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
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UCL | 98.4 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 94.6 |
| 3 | Delft University of Technology | 92.7 |
| 4 | ETH Zurich | 91.9 |
| 5 | Manchester School of Architecture | 88.6 |
| 6 | Politecnico di Milano | 87.8 |
| =7 | Harvard University | 86.7 |
| =7 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 86.7 |
| 9 | Tsinghua University | 84.4 |
| 10 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 83.4 |
| 11 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | 82.8 |
| 12 | Tongji University | 82.1 |
| 13 | University of Cambridge | 81.2 |
| 14 | The University of Hong Kong | 80.1 |
| 15 | RMIT University | 78.5 |
| 16 | Columbia University | 78.3 |
| 17 | The University of Tokyo | 78.1 |
| 18 | Politecnico di Torino | 77.8 |
| =19 | Cornell University | 77.3 |
| =19 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) | 77.3 |
| =21 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 76.7 |
| =21 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) | 76.7 |
| 23 | The University of Melbourne | 76.1 |
| 24 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | 75.9 |
| 25 | Technical University of Munich | 75.8 |
| 26 | The University of Sheffield | 75.1 |
| 27 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 75 |
| =28 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 74.3 |
| =28 | Stanford University | 74.3 |
| =28 | The University of Sydney | 74.3 |
| 31 | Seoul National University | 74.2 |
| 32 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 74.1 |
| 33 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 74 |
| =34 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 73.8 |
| =34 | University of Pennsylvania | 73.8 |
| =36 | Aalto University | 73.6 |
| =36 | Yale University | 73.6 |
| 38 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 72.9 |
| 39 | Princeton University | 72.8 |
| =40 | Tianjin University | 72.4 |
| =40 | Università Iuav di Venezia | 72.4 |
| =42 | Southeast University | 72.3 |
| =42 | University of Oxford | 72.3 |
| =44 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 71.2 |
| =44 | Technische Universität Wien | 71.2 |
| =44 | University of Toronto | 71.2 |
| 47 | KU Leuven | 70.8 |
| 48 | Universidade de São Paulo | 70.7 |
| 49 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 70.5 |
| =50 | Cardiff University | 70.4 |
| =50 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | 70.4 |
| 51-100 | Adelaide University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Architectural Association School of Architecture | n/a |
| 51-100 | Carnegie Mellon University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Chalmers University of Technology | n/a |
| 51-100 | Eindhoven University of Technology | n/a |
| 51-100 | Hanyang University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Harbin Institute of Technology | n/a |
| 51-100 | Istanbul Technical University | n/a |
| 51-100 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | n/a |
| 51-100 | Kyoto University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Loughborough University | n/a |
| 51-100 | McGill University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Middle East Technical University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Monash University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Nanjing University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Newcastle University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Oxford Brookes University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Peking University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Purdue University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | n/a |
| 51-100 | RWTH Aachen University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Sapienza University of Rome | n/a |
| 51-100 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Technical University of Darmstadt | n/a |
| 51-100 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | n/a |
| 51-100 | Texas A&M University | n/a |
| 51-100 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | n/a |
| 51-100 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | n/a |
| 51-100 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Edinburgh | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Chile | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad de los Andes - Colombia | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Bath | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of British Columbia | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Nottingham | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Porto | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Southern California | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Technology Sydney | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Texas at Austin | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Waterloo | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universität Stuttgart | n/a |
| 51-100 | Yonsei University | n/a |
