<p>That's just based on research...</p>
<p>Cornell, Cincinnati, and Rice should be a lot higher otherwise</p>
<p>What sort of architecture program does Princeton have to allow it to tie Columbia? Columbia's Avery Library is the virtual nerve center of architectural research; architectural libraries everywhere are based on the Avery Index; this makes it somewhat the equivalent of the Library of Congress for the profession. I had full blown endowed chair professors in Germany begging me, when I was a freshman, to assist them in gaining access there. Beyond which, Columbia has a tremendous architectural resource in New York which is rather lacking in central New Jersey, one which draws distinguished architects as much as it facilitates study.</p>
<p>I don't want to demean Princeton at all, just understand what makes its architecture program so competitive with Columbia's resources.</p>
<p>those rankings are really only good if you want to be a research oriented professor in the arch. field. Hence why they include mostly grad schools. They really don't provide any useful information for students looking into arch. programs. </p>
<p>For the undergraduate architecture program, most rankings have the schools ranked:</p>
<ol>
<li> Cornell</li>
<li>Rice
UCinn, Syracuse, Notre Dame, CMU, etc.</li>
</ol>
<p>CMU is severely underranked along with other "known" top architecture schools. Gomestar is right though; the rankings are only useful for a specific area.</p>
<p>I second gomestar.</p>