America’s best Architecture & Design Schools 2016

America’s best Architecture & Design Schools is an annual survey by Design Itelligence, for the Design Futures Council. The 16th annual survey was conducted this year in mid July and provides inside from the ”perspective of leading practitioners”. The participants are selected from the Design Futures Council database, from all over United States, who are first verified if they had recent practice with hiring and supervising architecture projects. Also, recent graduates of both architecture and design specialities are invited to take part in the survey.
This year, a total of 1426 opinions were taken into account, as they offered an answer to the question “In your firm’s hiring experience in the past five years, which schools are best preparing students for a future in the profession and designing a sustainable future?” In order to make an informed opinion, additional questions are asked, regarding teaching and learning useful skills, such as design, communication, sustainability and technology.
Here are the top schools for each discipline covered by the survey, both for graduate and undergraduate schools:
Architecture, graduate:

1. Harvard University
2. Cornell University
3. Yale University
4. Columbia University
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. University of California, Berkeley
7. University of Michigan
8. Rice University
9. Virginia Tech
10. Washington University, St. Luis

Architecture, undergraduate:

1. Cornell University
2. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
3. Virginia Tech
4. Syracuse University
5. Rice University
6. Rhode Island University
7. University of Texas at Austin
8. Auburn University
9. Carnegie Mellon University
10. University of Southern California

Landscape architecture, graduate:

1. Harvard University
2. University of Pennsylvania
3. Louisiana State University
4. Cornell University
5. University of Virginia
6. Kansas State University
7. Pennsylvania State University
8. University of California, Berkeley
9. Texas A&M University
10. University of Georgia

Landscape architecture, undergraduate:

1. Louisiana State University
2. Pennsylvania State University
3. Cornell University
4. University of Georgia
5. Texas A&M University
6. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
7. Purdue University
8. Ball State University
9. Iowa State University
10. Ohio State University

Interior design, graduate:

1. Savannah College of Art and Design
2. Pratt Institute
3. Rhode Island School of Design
4. Kansas State University
5. New York School of Interior Design

Interior design, undergraduate:

1. Savannah College of Art and Design
2. Rhode Island School of Design
3. Pratt Institute
4. University of Cincinnati
5. New York School if Interior Design

Industrial design, graduate:
1, Art Center College of Design
2. Rhode Island School of Design
3. Auburn University
3. Carnegie Mellon University
4. University of Cincinnati
Industrial design, undergraduate:
1. Art Center College of Design
2. University of Cincinnati
3. College for Creative Studies
4. Rhode Island School of Design
4. Auburn University
By Cristina Juc