As sure as the Harvard–Yale football game (or just The Game to its passionate alumni) is played every November, so does RECORD bring you our annual Top 10 architecture school lists. The rankings of undergraduate and graduate programs, from a survey undertaken by the Greenway Group, are a lot less suspenseful than The Game—Harvard's Graduate School of Design comes out on top almost every year, unlike the college's performance in football over the decades. But the two rivalrous architecture schools, Yale and the GSD, along with Columbia, MIT, and Cornell, have been shoving each other around the field for the last several seasons, to land somewhere in the top five slots.

What has changed, however, is architectural education. Various programs have different strengths, but digital design and fabrication, sustainability, and the phenomenon of globalization are having a big impact on the training of future professionals. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM—are increasingly central to architecture curricula. “The trend indicates that art and theory are less important,” says James P. Cramer, Greenway's chair. “The highest-paid careers will be in the STEM domain.”