<p>Here's one ranking that helps:</p>
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<p>Based on the number of articles referencing each college in this ultra-prestigious design magazine (online archives):</p>
<p><a href="http://www.metropolismag.com%5B/url%5D">www.metropolismag.com</a></p>
<p>Yale 53 (which, incidentally, has by far the nation's best art school and nation's top architecture program)
Harvard 50
Columbia 40
Princeton 30
Parsons 26
Berkeley 23 (mostly in reference to the town, not the university)
Cornell 17
Pratt 13
Stanford 9
RISD 9
Oxford 8
Johns Hopkins 6
NYU 3
Northwestern 2
Oberlin 2
USC 2
Amherst 1
Tufts 1
Dartmouth 0
Swarthmore 0</p>