What Are the Best Architecture Universities in the USA?

Harvard University

• The Department of Architecture at Harvard University has an international faculty, access to the Massachusetts of Technology resources and numerous traveling opportunities for students. Students can pursue a professional degree, Master in Architecture I, or a post-professional degree, Master in Architecture II. Students who did not complete undergraduate majors in design earn a professional degree that provides a broad foundation in practice, technology and history. Candidates must complete a thesis and internship prior to graduation. The post-professional degree emphasizes design; students may write a thesis if they choose. The faculty hosts department lectures, conferences and exhibitions throughout the year.

  Graduate School of Design
  48 Quincy St.
  Gund Hall
  Cambridge, MA 02138
  617-495-1000
  www.gsd.harvard.edu

Yale University

• Yale School of Architecture offers four degree programs: professional, post-professional, Master in History and Theory, and Doctor of Philosophy. Degree candidates may also cross-register and enroll in joint-degree programs with business or environmental studies. A liberal-arts-based undergraduate major is offered to Yale students. The curriculum is divided into four areas: urbanism and landscape, history and theory, design and visualization, and history and practice. Students may publish articles in one of Yale's design publications, attend guest lecture series or visit exhibitions.

  Yale School of Architecture
  180 York St.
  New Haven, CT 06511
  203-432-2288
  www.architecture.yale.edu

Columbia University

• The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University offers architecture students a professional degree, Master of Science in Advanced Design, Master of Science in Advanced Research, Master of Science in Conceptual Practices, or a Doctor in Architecture. The three-year professional program emphasizes the significance of design in both past and current issues. The curriculum of each program is divided into four factors: technology, design, theory, and methods. Yale focuses on the design studio, as it provides opportunities to fuse innovation with program studies.

  Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
  Columbia University
  1172 Amsterdam Ave.
  New York, NY 10027
  212-854-3414
  arch.columbia.edu