QS has released its 2016 rankings of the top 100 schools for architecture in the world. The company has produced an annual survey of universities since 2011, now comparing including over 800 universities worldwide across 42 subjects, and rating the top universities based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact. As they did last year, MIT came out top of the list in architecture. Read on for the full rankings list for architecture, and be sure to visit QS's site for the full rankings list which is sortable by subject, country or continent.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/ United States
2. UCL (University College London))/ United Kingdom
3. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)/ United States
4. Delft University of Technology / Netherlands
5. Harvard University / United States
6. University of Cambridge / United Kingdom
7. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology / Switzerland
8. Tsinghua University / China
9. National University of Singapore (NUS)/ Singapore
10. Manchester School of Architecture / United Kingdom
11. The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
12. Columbia University / United States
13. The University of Tokyo / Japan
14. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) / United States
15. Politecnico di Milano / Italy
16. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Hong Kong
17. The University of Sydney / Australia
18. The University of Melbourne / Australia
19. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) / Australia
20. Cornell University / United States
21. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)/ Switzerland
22. Tongji University / China
23. Stanford University / United States
24. KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Sweden
25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / United States
26. University of Pennsylvania / United States
27. University of British Columbia / Canada
28. Georgia Institute of Technology / United States
29. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) / Chile
30. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Spain
31. Seoul National University / South Korea
32. Princeton University / United States
33. University of Toronto / Canada
34. University of Texas at Austin / United States
35. Cardiff UniversityCardiff University / United Kingdom
36. RMIT University / Australia
37. Eindhoven University of Technology / Netherlands
38. The University of Sheffield / United Kingdom
39. Universidade de São Paulo / Brazil
40. Technische Universität München / Germany
41. Yale UniversityYale University / United States
42. Kyoto University / Japan
43. The University of Queensland / Australia
44. The University of Auckland / New Zealand
45. University of Michigan / United States
46. University of Salford / United Kingdom
47. Carnegie Mellon University / United States
48. The University of Newcastle, Australia (UoN) / Australia
49. KU Leuven / Belgium
50. Politecnico di Torino / Italy
51-100. Aalborg UniversityAalborg University / Denmark
51-100. Aalto University / Finland
51-100. Arizona State University / United States
51-100. Chalmers University of Technology / Sweden
51-100. City University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
51-100. Curtin University / Australia
51-100. Griffith University / Australia
51-100. Hanyang University / South Korea
51-100. Korea University / South Korea
51-100. Lund University / Sweden
51-100. McGill University / Canada
51-100. Monash University / Australia
51-100. Nanjing University / China
51-100. National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) / Taiwan
51-100. New York University (NYU) / United States
51-100. Newcastle University / United Kingdom
51-100. Norwegian University of Science And Technology / Norway
51-100. Oxford Brookes University / United Kingdom
51-100. Pennsylvania State University / United States
51-100. Politécnica de Madrid / Spain
51-100. Queensland University of Technology (QUT)/ Australia
51-100. RWTH Aachen University / Germany
51-100. Shanghai Jiao Tong University / China
51-100. Southeast University / China
51-100. Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) / South Korea
51-100. Technische Universität Berlin / Germany
51-100. TU Dortmund University / Germany
51-100. Texas A&M University / United States
51-100. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)/ Hong Kong
51-100. The University of Nottingham / United Kingdom
51-100. Tianjin University / China
51-100. Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) / Argentina
51-100. Universidad de Chile / Chile
51-100. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) / Mexico
51-100. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / Brazil
51-100. Université de Montréal Université de Montréal / Canada
51-100. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)/ Malaysia
51-100. Universiti Malaya (UM) / Malaysia
51-100 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) / Malaysia
51-100. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia / Malaysia
51-100. University of BathUniversity of Bath / United Kingdom
51-100. University of Cape Town / South Africa
51-100. The University of Edinburgh / United Kingdom
51-100. University of Florida / United States
51-100. University of Liverpool / United Kingdom
51-100. University of South Australia / Australia
51-100. University of Southern California / United States
51-100. University of Washington / United States
51-100. University of Waterloo / Canada
51-100. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / United States
Want to know about QS's methodology for these rankings? Visit their website here.
