Since 2019, Buildner (formerly called Bee Breeders), one of the world’s leading architecture competition organisers, has been ranking universities with architecture and art programmes based on the number of architecture competitions their students entered in the previous year.

The Buildner Architecture University Ranking assesses the results of 1,287 universities.

Similarly to last year, Buildner published its ‘All Time Best’ list, which combines the results from previous years. Based on data from 19 January 2023, BME is now ranked 29th, moving up 12 places from last year. This still puts BME ahead of all other Hungarian universities, according to a BME press release.

The building of BME (Photo: BME)

The ranking of Hungarian universities and their places in the “All Time Best” list of the Buildner University Ranking (as at 19 January 2023):

1. Budapest University of Technology and Economics: 29
2. Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design: 59
3. University of Pécs: 97
4. Szent István University, Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering: 135
5. Óbuda University: 138
6. Óbuda University, Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering: 140
7. University of Pécs, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology: 144
8. University of Debrecen: 147 / University of Sopron: 147.
9. Budapest Metropolitan University: 148.

As regards Hungarian universities, BME has been number one year by year and has been ranked first on the ‘All Time Best’ list since last year.

The newly published most recent annual ranking compiled based on competition results from 2022 includes BME in place 31, followed by the University of Pécs in place 65 and the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering of Óbuda University in place 73.

The ranking of Hungarian universities and their places in the Buildner University Ranking based on 2022 competitions:

1. Budapest University of Technology and Economics: 31
2. University of Pécs: 65
3. Óbuda University, Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering: 73
4. University of Pécs, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology: 75 / Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design: 75