America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools, 2011


Author(s): 
DesignIntelligence
Number of Pages: 
90 pages
Date Published: 
November 4, 2010
$39.95

America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools has been the definitive analysis of design programs across the country for more than a decade. No student, prospective student, school counselor, or hiring manager should be without it. Inside the 2011 edition:

  • Top 20 undergraduate and graduate architecture schools
  • Top 10 undergraduate and graduate industrial design schools
  • Top 10 undergraduate and graduate interior design schools
  • Top 10 undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture schools
  • Which schools that are best preparing students in design, communication, and other specific skills
  • The architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and industrial design programs most respected by academic deans
  • More than 2,500 students grade their satisfaction with 35 architecture programs
  • Pass rates for the Architect Registration Exam and Landscape Architect Registration Exam
  • 25 most admired design educators

PLUS

  • Historical review of top schools
  • Directory of leading programs
  • Ranking of the design professions’ most pressing concerns
  • And more!

HELPFUL AND INSIGHTFUL ARTICLES

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  • Sustainable Design as Design
    
Commitment to sustainable design is a change management issue
  • 100 Days at a Time
    The Fentress CEO worked through a series of plans to set goals and assess next steps
  • Collaborative Project Delivery: Better Than IPD?
    
Remarkable results can be produced regardless of shared legal risk
  • Learning by Design

    Embracing lifelong learning as a core competency is a smart investment
  • Three R’s for the New Economy: Reposition, Redevelop, Regenerate
    
With new construction scares, owners and architects turn to other avenues

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Architecture School Tuition & Fee Report 2010-2011
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A complete school-by-school comparison that includes special fees and payment cycles. This report includes:

  • All currently accredited Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture programs
  • The term schedule for each program
  • In-state and out-of-state tuition fees at both undergraduate and graduate levels
  • Mandatory institutional and college fees
  • Relative cost to other architecture schools