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America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools, 2008
From Architecture and Landscape Architecture, to Interior Design and Industrial Design, America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2008 provides students, parents, counselors and industry professionals with targeted and timely information, the tools for an evaluation of the nation’s top performing schools and a benchmark for evaluating other programs.
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- 11/22/02 Editor’s Choice: The Forward 40 (2003 Rankings) I admit to having biased views on the subject, beyond the annual DI customer satisfaction survey. Somewhat reluctantly, I share them with you this month. Undoubtedly, there will be dissent.
- 11/22/02 Mentoring Model = Two-Way Respect At the 2002 National Internship Summit convened in October 2002 at the University of Oklahoma, interns summarized their concerns in a paper “What Interns Need.”
- 11/22/02 New Leaders in Annual Design School Rankings We ask which architectural school is producing the best graduates based on experience with new hires; for the first time in four years, Cornell University has fallen from the top position.
- 09/25/02 TRENDS/STRATEGIES - September, 2002 Collected Trends and Strategies printed in DesignIntelligence Vol. 8, No. 9.
- 07/15/02 A Glorious Past, Who’s Shaping the Future? Are architectural graduates entering an ever-narrowing and non-essential profession that has loosened its authority over the education and training of its future practitioners?
- 05/01/02 The Mentoring Mystique: Tapping Its Hidden Potential It’s been no secret that, when it comes to adequately preparing students with the complete range of necessary skills for private practice, design schools have failed miserably…
- 03/01/02 Roundtable Results: Recommendations and Priorities for Higher Education At the recent meeting of the Design Futures Council in Scottsdale, Arizona, principals from pacesetting firms, industry leaders and representatives from three top schools discussed how the behavior of schools-—and subsequently, of practitioners—-migh
- 11/01/01 Design School Survey Results Reveals Surprises Since its introduction, the rankings have generated much attention and debate from students, design firms and the schools themselves. Prospective students have sought out the ranking as a useful tool in helping to formulate their educational goals.
