<p>Rank depends on where you want to work when you graduate.</p>
<p>For example, if you want to work in New York City, these are the top five (first equals) in my opinion:</p>
<p>Cornell 5 year BArch
Cooper 5 year B Arch
Anywhere BArch + HYP,Columbia,UPenn MArch
SCIARC 5 year BArch
Anywhere BArch + Berkely MArch</p>
<p>Rice would be in the top five in Texas and Louisiana but not on either coast–unless paired with a prestigious MArch from those coasts.</p>
<p>This is NOT to say that you can’t get a great job in NYC with a unadorned Rice degree but breaking into one of the top offices in a design (vs a technical or administrative) position will be much much tougher if you don’t have one of the above combinations. My opinion only however. Not the gospel.</p>