Top Schools

Housed in Will Alsop’s iconic Sharp Centre for Design in downtown Toronto, OCAD U’s Industrial Design program challenges students to infuse their work with global and local perspectives, including long-overlooked Indigenous views.

The Swiss Institute of Technology’s highly touted architecture programs follow the two-tiered Bologna process, meaning that its Bachelor and Master degrees are designed to be pursued consecutively.

TU Delft’s people-focused MSc in Design for Interaction incorporates ideas from aesthetics and ergonomics to psychology and sociology.

The RCA’s dynamic School of Design is a playground for rebellious thinking, providing an open-minded milieu that encourages students to think outside the box.

Introduced in 1950, HKU’s architecture program is, like modern-day China, topical and engaging.

The Product, Ceramic & Industrial Design Programme at Central Saint Martins (part of the University of the Arts London) draws students from 90 countries to its campus in central London.

Inspired by its namesake, Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture (the university was previously known as University of Art and Design Helsinki) encourages its Collaborative and Industrial Design students to experiment.

The century-old architecture program at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment puts an emphasis on the profession’s technical and scientific aspects.

Given starchitect Odile Decq’s punk rock reputation, the esteemed graduate school she launched in 2014 is fittingly designed around rule breaking.

The AA School of Architecture program offers an “innovative, project-directed form of teaching” and “collaborative, experimental approaches to architectural education.”