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Best for Architecture

Designing buildings and cities. A portfolio is usually required. ShanghaiRanking has no architecture table, so this list is ordered by overall ARWU rank.

What you would study

Bachelor's: BArch / BA Architecture
Master's / PhD: MArch, MSc Urban Design / Planning
Class 12 stream: PCM
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Exams you may need

For bachelor's: Portfolio · IELTS/TOEFL
For master's: Portfolio · IELTS/TOEFL

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Universities by overall rank

no subject table exists — ARWU 2025 overall order

Country 1,000 universities

#1Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts, United States · UG fees ~₹59.6 lakh/yrAdmission guide #2Stanford UniversityStanford, California, United States · UG fees ~₹64.9 lakh/yrAdmission guide #3Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, Massachusetts, United States · UG fees ~₹63.9 lakh/yrAdmission guide #4University of CambridgeCambridge, England, United Kingdom · UG fees ~₹39.1 lakh/yrAdmission guide #5University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, California, United States · UG fees ~₹48.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide #6University of OxfordOxford, England, United KingdomAdmission guide #7Princeton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey, United States · UG fees ~₹65.3 lakh/yrAdmission guide #8Columbia UniversityNew York, NY, United States · UG fees ~₹68.8 lakh/yr #9California Institute of TechnologyPasadena, CA, United States · UG fees ~₹65.7 lakh/yrAdmission guide #10University of ChicagoChicago, IL, United States · UG fees ~₹67.7 lakh/yrAdmission guide #11Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT, United States · UG fees ~₹69.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide #12Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY, United States · UG fees ~₹70.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide #13Paris-Saclay UniversityGif-sur-Yvette, France · UG fees ~₹3.2 lakh/yrAdmission guide #14University College LondonLondon, England, United KingdomAdmission guide #14University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · UG fees ~₹65.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide #16University of California, Los AngelesLos Angeles, California, United States · UG fees ~₹47.3 lakh/yrAdmission guide #17University of WashingtonSeattle, Washington, United States · UG fees ~₹41.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide #18Tsinghua UniversityBeijing, China #19Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, Maryland, United States · UG fees ~₹62.5 lakh/yrAdmission guide #20University of California, San DiegoLa Jolla, San Diego, California, United States · UG fees ~₹48.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide #21University of California, San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA, United States #22ETH ZurichZurich, SwitzerlandAdmission guide #23Peking UniversityBeijing, China #24Zhejiang UniversityHangzhou, China #25University of TorontoToronto, Ontario, Canada · UG fees ~₹44.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide #26Imperial College LondonLondon, England, United KingdomAdmission guide #26Washington University in St LouisSt. Louis, Missouri, United States · UG fees ~₹63 lakh/yrAdmission guide #28New York UniversityNew York, NY, United States · UG fees ~₹60.2 lakh/yr #29Rockefeller UniversityNew York City, New York, United StatesAdmission guide #30Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina #31Northwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois, United States · UG fees ~₹65.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide #31The University of TokyoHongō, JapanAdmission guide #33University of Michigan, Ann ArborAnn Arbor, MI, United States · UG fees ~₹58.4 lakh/yr #34PSL UniversityParis, France · UG fees ~₹3.2 lakh/yrAdmission guide #35University of CopenhagenCopenhagen Municipality, Denmark #36University of Wisconsin, MadisonMadison, Wisconsin, United States · UG fees ~₹43.6 lakh/yrAdmission guide #37The University of EdinburghEdinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomAdmission guide #38The University of MelbourneParkville, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAdmission guide #39University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, North Carolina, United States · UG fees ~₹45.5 lakh/yrAdmission guide #40University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China #41Fudan UniversityYangpu District, China #42University of MunichMunich, Bavaria, GermanyAdmission guide #43Sorbonne UniversityParis, France · UG fees ~₹19,000/yrAdmission guide #44Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneSwitzerlandAdmission guide #45Technical University of MunichMunich, Bavaria, GermanyAdmission guide #46Duke UniversityDurham, North Carolina, United States · UG fees ~₹65.9 lakh/yrAdmission guide #46Kyoto UniversityKyoto Prefecture, JapanAdmission guide #46The University of ManchesterManchester, England, United KingdomAdmission guide #49The University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas, United StatesAdmission guide #50Karolinska InstitutetSolna Municipality, SwedenAdmission guide

Where this comes from

Ranks are copied, with their year, from ShanghaiRanking's ShanghaiRanking ARWU 2025 and its Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025 — LLOS does not rank universities. Addresses, websites and locations come from Wikidata; US numbers from the US College Scorecard. Admission details and country rules were read from each university's and government's own pages — every profile lists its sources and the date they were checked.

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