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Central Saint Martins

Central Saint Martins – part of University of the Arts London – is the sixth school in our Hot List, with both student projects and the arts school's campus both proving popular with our readers.

The Bartlett – University College London's faculty of the built environment – comes in number two in our schools ranking, with conceptual graduate projects featuring fantastical architectural drawings dominating the top posts about the school.

ÉCAL

Swiss university of art and design ÉCAL (École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne) ranks at number five in our schools list, owing to the popularity of the university's Milan design week 2016 presentations.

Royal College of Art

London's Royal College of Art is our highest-ranking education establishment.

Design Academy Eindhoven

Design Academy Eindhoven comes in at number three in our schools list, largely due to the popularity of projects presented at Milan Design Week and Dutch Design Week, which is held each year in Eindhoven to coincide with the school's graduation show.

MIT

This was the second year in a row that Massachusetts Institute of Technology was named the world's top architecture school in the QS University Rankings, beating 1,668 other institutions.

The Royal College of Art is number one on our Schools Hot List

When it comes to our audience, architecture and design schools around the world are judged by the quality of the student and graduate projects we publish, and this year London's Royal College of Art has come out on top of our Schools Hot List.

Architectural Association

Unsurprisingly, the biggest story to emerge this year regarding London school the Architectural Association (AA) centres around Zaha Hadid – the great architect that we lost this year and who tops our Hot List.

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