Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Design School Reputations

When potential students or project clients ask me which is the best

architecture or design school, I usually give them the names of a few

institutions but also insist: 'don't take my word for it, get hold of

current students or researchers there, and ask them what it's like'.

Even that approach is limited: people inside one institution are not

ideally placed to compare their own experience with that of their

peers in other ones. Citation league tables are a guide, but tell

only one part of the story. There's a gap here: 33 million people in

the US have rated a product, service, or person using an online

rating system - but not, so far as I can see, the big ticket purchase

of a design education. Design portal Core 77 hosts a lively forum in

which students exchange opinions about design courses and schools -

but these exchanges are anecdotal. Is there a ratings system for

education out there that I've missed?



Core77 - Design Schools and Education

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