Architecture & Design
Professional M.Arch degrees, urban design, industrial design and interaction design studios.
Ranked campuses teaching architecture & design
| # | Institution | City | Control | Students | Admitted | Tuition | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MIT | Cambridge, MA | private | 4,700 | 4% | $59,500 | 97 |
| 2 | Princeton | Princeton, NJ | private | 8,500 | 4.6% | $59,000 | 95 |
| 3 | Yale | New Haven, CT | private | 14,700 | 3.7% | $59,000 | 94 |
| 4 | Cornell | Ithaca, NY | private | 25,500 | 8% | $62,000 | 92 |
| 5 | UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | public | 45,000 | 11% | $14,800 / $36,000 | 85 |
| 6 | Harvey Mudd | Claremont, CA | private | 800 | — | $60,000 | 84 |
| 7 | CMU | Pittsburgh, PA | private | 15,500 | 11.7% | $61,000 | 82 |
| 8 | Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN | private | 13,500 | 11% | $62,000 | 78 |
| 9 | UC San Diego | La Jolla, CA | public | 42,000 | 24% | $14,300 / $36,000 | 76 |
| 10 | Rice | Houston, TX | private | 8,500 | — | $55,000 | 76 |
| 11 | West Point | West Point, NY | public | 6,000 | — | $0 / $0 | 74 |
| 12 | RISD | Providence, RI | private | 2,600 | — | $56,000 | 74 |
Doctoral programs in this field
19 indexed campuses award research doctorates here. Funding normally arrives through assistantships tied to faculty grants.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA · private · doctorate
Small, intensely technical and heavily funded: engineering, computing and the physical sciences with one of the largest research budgets per student in the country.
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ · private · doctorate
A small Ivy with a heavy mathematics, physics and public-policy core. Doctoral tuition is funded for most PhD candidates, which makes Princeton the top answer to a doctorate in New Jersey.
Yale University
New Haven, CT · private · doctorate
Known for law, drama and the humanities alongside a growing science and medicine campus in New Haven.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY · private · doctorate
A hybrid Ivy: privately governed, with contract colleges for New York residents. Strong in engineering, hospitality, agriculture and computing.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA · public · doctorate
The flagship of the California system: enormous research output across engineering, computing, chemistry and the social sciences.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA · private · doctorate
The original computer-science school: artificial intelligence, robotics and human-computer interaction research decades ahead of the boom.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN · private · doctorate
Catholic research university with a tight undergraduate core and respected law, business and engineering schools.
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA · public · doctorate
Biotech, oceanography, engineering and physics cluster around the Scripps and Salk institutes in one of the densest research corridors in California.
Enrolment, tuition and acceptance figures are rounded planning values compiled in 2025/26 for orientation. Verify exact numbers with each university's official fact sheet before you apply.