Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture is ranked among the top 15 undergraduate programs in the United States in the 11th annual America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools survey, recently released in the Design Future Council’s publication, DesignIntelligence.

The DesignIntelligence results are determined through a poll of more than 100,000 leading architecture and design practitioners.

The practitioners rank the schools best preparing students for practice in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and industrial design.

IIT Institute of Design’s (ID) graduate industrial design program is ranked number one in a survey of deans and chairs of industrial design academic programs.

The program was cited for its excellence in design research and approach to strategy.

“We are honored to continue to have our programs ranked highly by a group of many of the nation’s most renowned architecture and design professionals,” said IIT College of Architecture Dean Donna Robertson.

“IIT College of Architecture has a history of design excellence and technical expertise and our award-winning faculty members continue to address the needs of today’s students and prepare them with the tools they need to become ethical, thoughtful, and informed architecture professionals.”

IIT College of Architecture’s programs of study emphasize investigations in architectural and landscape architectural design and technology, while expanding the significance of these investigations through a rigorous application of critical thought and intellectual inquiry.

The College draws strength from its unique traditions and circumstances, such as its Miesian legacy as a preeminent school of modernism, its location in Chicago with its profuse architectural heritage and devotion to enhanced landscapes, and the city’s present-day connections to progressively minded, global practitioners.

The students, faculty, and alumni foster an academic environment that is intellectually stimulating, professionally challenging, committed to innovation, and international in scope.

For more information about IIT College of Architecture’s degree programs, please visit arch.iit.edu.

For more information about DesignIntelligence, please visit di.net.

About the Illinois Institute of Technology

Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting university with more than 7,300 students in engineering, sciences, architecture, psychology, design, humanities, business and law.

IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum is designed to advance knowledge through research and scholarship, to cultivate invention improving the human condition, and to prepare students from throughout the world for a life of professional achievement, service to society, and individual fulfillment.

For more information, please visit iit.edu.