Sydney has maintained its position over Melbourne in Quacquarelli Symonds’ (QS) 2017 rankings of the world’s top university architecture faculties.
The University of Sydney has placed before The University of Melbourne in the annual survey which rates the top universities for architecture based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact.
This year, for the seventh edition of the survey, QS has expanded the ranking to list the world’s top 200 schools.
The University of Sydney has come in at number 15, an improvement on its 2015 and 2016 rank of 17. On the other hand, The University of Melbourne has dropped slightly in ranks, from 18 in 2016 to 19.
Other Australian universities ranked in the top 50 included UNSW (22), RMIT University (28), University of Newcastle (45) and The University of Queensland (49).
Curtin University, Griffith University, Monash University and Queensland University of Technology, University of South Australia were all ranked 51 – 100, while The University of Western Australian and University of Technology Sydney ranked 101 – 150, and Deakin University and The University of Adelaide ranked 151 – 200.
For the third year in a row, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has topped the list, followed by the Bartlett School of Architecture, and the Delft University of Technology.
Below is the top 50 for 2017:
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / United States
2. The Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL (University College London) / United Kingdom
3. Delft University of Technology / Netherlands
4. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) / United States
5. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) / Switzerland
6. Manchester School of Architecture / United Kingdom
7. Harvard University / United States
8. University of Cambridge / United Kingdom
9. National University of Singapore (NUS) / Singapore
10. University of Hong Kong (HKU) / Hong Kong
11. Tsinghua University / China
12. Columbia University / United States
13. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) / United States
14. Politecnico di Milano / Italy
15= The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Hong Kong
15= The University of Sydney / Australia
17. The University of Tokyo / Japan
18. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) / United States
19. The University of Melbourne / Australia
20. Tongji University / China
21. Cornell University / United States
22. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) / Australia
23= KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Sweden
23= Stanford University / United States
25. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)/ Switzerland
26. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Spain
27. University of British Columbia / Canada
28. RMIT University / Australia
29= Princeton University / United States
29= Technische Universität München / Germany
31. The University of Sheffield / United Kingdom
32. University of Pennsylvania / United States
33. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / United States
34. Seoul National University (SNU) / South Korea
35. Universidade de São Paulo (USP) / Brazil
36. University of Salford / United Kingdom
37= Kyoto University / Japan
37= Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Chile
39= Cardiff University / United Kingdom
39= University of Toronto / Canada
41. University of Texas at Austin / United States
42. Technische Universität Berlin / Germany
43. University of Michigan / United States
44. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven / Belgium
45. University of Newcastle / Australia
46. Politecnico di Torino / Italy
47= Eindhoven University of Technology / Netherlands
47= Loughborough University / United Kingdom
49. The University of Queensland (UQ) / Australia
50= Politécnica de Madrid / Spain
50= Yale University / United States
