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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
Careers: Explore Architecture careers →

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

101–150Beihang UniversityBeijing, China 101–150Beijing Institute of TechnologyZizhuyuan Subdistrict, China 101–150Beijing Normal UniversityBeijing, China 101–150Boston UniversityBoston, Massachusetts, United States · UG fees ~₹70 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150Brown UniversityProvidence, Rhode Island, United States · UG fees ~₹68.7 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · UG fees ~₹66.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150Emory UniversityAtlanta, Georgia, United States · UG fees ~₹61.6 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150Erasmus University RotterdamRotterdam, NetherlandsAdmission guide 101–150Harbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin, China 101–150Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, New York, United StatesAdmission guide 101–150Indiana University, BloomingtonBloomington, Indiana, United States · UG fees ~₹42.5 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150Institute of Science TokyoŌokayama, JapanAdmission guide 101–150Jilin UniversityChangchun, China 101–150King Saud UniversityRiyadh, Saudi Arabia 101–150Leiden UniversityLeiden, NetherlandsAdmission guide 101–150Lund UniversityLund Municipality, SwedenAdmission guide 101–150Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, MinnesotaRochester, Minnesota, United States · UG fees ~₹3.1 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150McMaster UniversityHamilton, Ontario, CanadaAdmission guide 101–150Moscow State UniversityMoscow, Russia 101–150Nagoya UniversityNagoya, JapanAdmission guide 101–150Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityXi'an, China 101–150Pennsylvania State University, University ParkUniversity Park, Pennsylvania, United StatesAdmission guide 101–150Purdue University, West LafayetteWest Lafayette, Indiana, United StatesAdmission guide 101–150Radboud University NijmegenNijmegen, NetherlandsAdmission guide 101–150Rice UniversityHouston, Texas, United States · UG fees ~₹63.7 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150Sapienza University of RomeRome, ItalyAdmission guide 101–150Shandong UniversityJinan, China 101–150Soochow University (China)Suzhou, China 101–150South China University of TechnologyGuangzhou, China 101–150Southeast UniversityNanjing, China 101–150Southern University of Science and TechnologyTaoyuan Subdistrict, China 101–150The Australian National UniversityCanberra, Australian Capital Territory, AustraliaAdmission guide 101–150The Chinese University of Hong KongSha Tin District, Hong Kong · UG fees ~₹28.1 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150The University of WarwickCoventry, United Kingdom · UG fees ~₹35.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150The University of Western AustraliaPerth, Western Australia, AustraliaAdmission guide 101–150Tianjin UniversityTianjin, China 101–150Tongji UniversityChina 101–150Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)Belgium 101–150University of AlbertaEdmonton, Alberta, CanadaAdmission guide 101–150University of AmsterdamAmsterdam, NetherlandsAdmission guide 101–150University of California, DavisDavis, California, United States · UG fees ~₹48.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150University of FreiburgFreiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyAdmission guide 101–150University of GlasgowGlasgow, United Kingdom · UG fees ~₹35.9 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150University of LausanneLausanne, SwitzerlandAdmission guide 101–150University of LiverpoolLiverpool, United Kingdom · UG fees ~₹34.3 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150University of NottinghamNottingham, United Kingdom · UG fees ~₹33.3 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150University of Sao PauloSão Carlos, Brazil 101–150University of StrasbourgStrasbourg, France · UG fees ~₹3.2 lakh/yrAdmission guide 101–150University of ViennaVienna, Austria 101–150Xiamen UniversityXiamen, China

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.

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