Architecture school among top in U.S.

Architecture
school among top in U.S.
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BY B.J. ALMOND
Rice News Staff

Rice University
ranks No. 1 among schools and colleges of architecture in
the Southern region of the United States and No. 4 nationally.

The new rankings
were determined by a customer-satisfaction survey of more
than 800 leading U.S. architecture firms conducted by the
Design Futures Council and published in the Almanac of Architecture
& Design 2001 and a newsletter called DesignIntelligence.
Principals, design directors and human resource directors
from firms in all marketing sectors were asked to name from
which architecture schools they have had the best experience
hiring employees over the past 10 years. Only schools accredited
by the National Architectural Accrediting Board were eligible.

Rice topped
the list of schools in the South, followed by The University
of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University. Nationwide,
Rice was preceded only by Cornell University, Harvard University
and Yale University.

Lars Lerup,
dean of Rice’s School of Architecture and the William
Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture, noted the achievement
is particularly significant because Rice’s school,
which graduates approximately 20 graduate and 20 undergraduate
students each year, is much smaller than those of the other
top-ranking schools.

The Almanac
of Architecture & Design 2001 is an annual reference
book for architects, landscape architects, interior and
industrial designers, historic preservationists, urban planners
and other architecture enthusiasts.

DesignIntelligence
is published by the Design Futures Council, a worldwide
organization for the design industry and a subsidiary of
Greenway Consulting. Greenway Consulting is a planning,
research, management and communications company serving
the architecture and design markets based in Atlanta, with
additional offices in Washington, D.C., and Chicago.

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