Best Colleges for Architecture
217 four-year colleges offer architecture programs. These rank highest by graduate earnings, using official federal data.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA · Private nonprofit
- $20,111
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 4,535
- Enrolled
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA · Private nonprofit
- $31,944
- Net price
- 12%
- Admit rate
- 7,304
- Enrolled
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA · Private nonprofit
- $28,699
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 10,650
- Enrolled
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ · Private nonprofit
- $6,128
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 5,709
- Enrolled
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA · Private nonprofit
- $36,931
- Net price
- 26%
- Admit rate
- 5,898
- Enrolled
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY · Private nonprofit
- $28,690
- Net price
- 9%
- Admit rate
- 15,995
- Enrolled
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Atlanta, GA · Public
- $12,116
- Net price
- 14%
- Admit rate
- 18,785
- Enrolled
Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY · Private nonprofit
- $21,590
- Net price
- 4%
- Admit rate
- 8,973
- Enrolled
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY · Private nonprofit
- $36,228
- Net price
- 63%
- Admit rate
- 5,714
- Enrolled
Yale University
New Haven, CT · Private nonprofit
- $23,777
- Net price
- 4%
- Admit rate
- 6,758
- Enrolled
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN · Private nonprofit
- $26,780
- Net price
- 11%
- Admit rate
- 8,818
- Enrolled
Brown University
Providence, RI · Private nonprofit
- $25,184
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 7,226
- Enrolled
Northeastern University
Boston, MA · Private nonprofit
- $30,915
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 17,326
- Enrolled
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA · Private nonprofit
- $32,740
- Net price
- 10%
- Admit rate
- 20,443
- Enrolled
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA · Public
- $13,481
- Net price
- 11%
- Admit rate
- 33,068
- Enrolled
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN · Private nonprofit
- $15,846
- Net price
- 6%
- Admit rate
- 7,208
- Enrolled
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA · Public
- $16,665
- Net price
- 31%
- Admit rate
- 21,996
- Enrolled
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA · Private nonprofit
- $41,431
- Net price
- 62%
- Admit rate
- 5,287
- Enrolled
Rice University
Houston, TX · Private nonprofit
- $13,370
- Net price
- 8%
- Admit rate
- 4,776
- Enrolled
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA · Public
- $21,565
- Net price
- 17%
- Admit rate
- 17,597
- Enrolled
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA · Private nonprofit
- $30,365
- Net price
- 52%
- Admit rate
- 5,671
- Enrolled
Washington University in St Louis
St. Louis, MO · Private nonprofit
- $21,786
- Net price
- 12%
- Admit rate
- 7,857
- Enrolled
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA · Public
- $12,470
- Net price
- 27%
- Admit rate
- 34,948
- Enrolled
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA · Private nonprofit
- $25,496
- Net price
- 14%
- Admit rate
- 2,300
- Enrolled