Best universities for Architecture in the world — ranks, fees, how to apply

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

Universities by overall rank

no subject table exists — ARWU 2025 overall order

Country 1,000 universities

501–600Alexandria UniversityAlexandria, Egypt 501–600Aristotle University of ThessalonikiThessaloniki Municipality, Greece 501–600Auburn UniversityAuburn, AL, United States · UG fees ~₹33.5 lakh/yr 501–600Bangor UniversityGwynedd, United Kingdom 501–600Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat Gan, Israel 501–600Beijing Jiaotong UniversityBeijing, China 501–600Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA, United States · UG fees ~₹67.7 lakh/yr 501–600Carleton UniversityOttawa, Ontario, CanadaAdmission guide 501–600Central China Normal UniversityWuhan, China 501–600Changzhou UniversityChangzhou, China 501–600China University of Petroleum, BeijingChangping District, China 501–600Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing, China 501–600Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA, United States · UG fees ~₹59.8 lakh/yr 501–600Eotvos Lorand UniversityBudapest, Hungary 501–600Federal University of Minas GeraisBelo Horizonte, Brazil 501–600Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, Brazil 501–600Fujian Normal UniversityFuzhou, China 501–600Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityHangzhou, China 501–600Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhou, China 501–600Harbin Engineering UniversityHarbin, China 501–600Hebei UniversityBaoding, China 501–600Hebei University of TechnologyTianjin, China 501–600Indian Institute of ScienceKarnataka, India 501–600Istanbul UniversityFatih, Türkiye 501–600Jagiellonian UniversityKraków, Poland 501–600Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyZhenjiang, China 501–600King Abdulaziz UniversityJeddah, Saudi Arabia 501–600Kobe UniversityKobe, Japan 501–600Medical College of WisconsinMilwaukee, WI, United States 501–600Medical University of South CarolinaCharleston, SC, United States 501–600Murdoch UniversityPerth, Western Australia, AustraliaAdmission guide 501–600Nanjing Forestry UniversityNanjing, China 501–600National and Kapodistrian University of AthensDirfys-Messapia Municipality, Greece 501–600National Polytechnic InstituteClermont-Ferrand, Mexico 501–600National Sun Yat-Sen UniversityGushan District, Taiwan 501–600North China Electric Power UniversityShigezhuang Subdistrict, China 501–600Northeast Agricultural UniversityXiangfang District, China 501–600Northeast Normal UniversityChangchun, China 501–600Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff, AZ, United States · UG fees ~₹28.6 lakh/yr 501–600Okayama UniversityOkayama Prefecture, Japan 501–600Pontifical Catholic University of ChileSantiago, Chile 501–600Qatar UniversityDoha, Qatar 501–600Saint Louis University (USA)Saint Louis, MO, United States · UG fees ~₹53.4 lakh/yr 501–600San Diego State UniversitySan Diego, CA, United States · UG fees ~₹20.4 lakh/yr 501–600Shaanxi Normal UniversityXi'an, China 501–600Shandong Agricultural UniversityTai'an, China 501–600Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 501–600Shanxi UniversityXiaodian District, China 501–600Tampere UniversityTampere, Finland 501–600Texas Tech UniversityLubbock, TX, United States · UG fees ~₹23.4 lakh/yr

Where Architecture leads

careers, and the same path in India

Careers it opens

Every Architecture career — pay, skills, a week in the life →

Or study it in India

B.Arch · After 12th
Diploma in Agriculture · After 10th

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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.

Rupee figures use European Central Bank reference rates of 2026-09-25 and are a guide, not a quote. Deadlines, fees and visa rules change every year: always confirm on the official page before you apply or pay. LLOS takes no commission from any university, agent or lender.

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