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TOP-50 best architecture universities in Europe 2026 – QS Rankings

TOP-50 best architecture universities in Europe 2026 – QS Rankings

Check out our list of the best architecture universities in Europe according to QS World University rankings.

European universities are distinguished by high quality of student training, unique academic plans and wide demand. The educational process is based on the Bologna credit system, which implies the accumulation of credits - credits that indicate how many hours the student devotes to studying within the walls of the university. For example, to get a bachelor's degree, you need to collect about 360 credits (1 credit is equal to about 10 hours).

In Europe, education in English is common, but depending on the country, you can learn the local language and study in it.

Architecture is one of the most popular and directions, requiring great responsibility and attentiveness from the student. In the best European universities from our list, students are taught the correct drawings, drawings, sketches and sketches, give examples from three-dimensional graphics and animation, the guys practice creating flyers, crafts from different materials and collages.

In the course of the educational process, future architects design buildings and groups of buildings, cities and towns, develop new space-planning solutions, reconstruct architectural monuments, study the basics of urbanism, create landscape panoramas. Academic courses include the following disciplines:

  • Theory of Architectural Design
  • Architectural and construction technologies
  • Construction management
  • Quantitative topography
  • Preservation and restoration of buildings
  • Landscape architecture
  • Regional planning
  • Urban and rural settlement planning
  • Urban Studies
  • Housing policy
  • Transport planning.

The European Diploma of Architect is highly valued all over the world. Graduates can find high-paying jobs abroad - in the UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Eastern Europe. After the end of training, pupils can work as:

  • Employee of private architectural bureaus and large construction companies
  • Designer of cottages and high-rise buildings
  • Civil servant
  • Landscape designer, urbanist
  • Lecturer at a university, college and technical school.

Best Architecture universities in Europe 2026 - QS World University rankings

1 UCL
2 Delft University of Technology
3 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
4 Manchester School of Architecture
5 Politecnico di Milano
6 University of Cambridge
7 EPFL
8 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
9 Politecnico di Torino
10 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
11 Technical University of Munich
12 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)
13 University of Oxford
14 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
15 KU Leuven
16 The University of Sheffield
17 Aalto University
18 Eindhoven University of Technology
19 Cardiff University
20 Chalmers University of Technology
21 KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
22 Loughborough University
23 Lund University
24 Newcastle University
25 RWTH Aachen University
26 Sapienza University of Rome
27 Technische Universität Wien
28 The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
29 The University of Edinburgh
30 Università Iuav di Venezia
31 University of Bath
32 University of Nottingham
33 University of Porto
34 University of Reading
35 Universität Stuttgart
36 Aalborg University
37 Aarhus University
38 Ghent University
39 Heriot-Watt University
40 Norwegian University of Science And Technology
41 Oxford Brookes University
42 Technische Universität Dresden
43 Universidad de Sevilla
44 Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
45 Universitat de Barcelona
46 University College Dublin
47 University of Glasgow
48 University of Leeds
49 University of Lisbon
50 University of Liverpool
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