Good colleges for Bachelor of Science in Architectural studies?

The most reliable list of Undergraduate Rankings for Architectural programs is from the Trade Publication AR (Arch. Record)

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14289-americas-top-architecture-schools-2020

There are 3 ways to become an Architect in America.

1.) Go to an Accredited 5 year accelerated B.Architecture program like the schools on this list. Then you intern for 3 years, take your NCARB registration exam and if you pass all 6 exams over a 2 or 3 day sitting, you are an architect. If you don't pass a section you can take that section over.

https://www.ncarb.org/pass-the-are

2.) Go to a B.S. Architecture 4-degree program, graduate and then apply into a 2-year M.Arch program for a total of 6 years, be an intern for 3 years and then sit for your NCARB exam.

3.) Go to any 4-year non-architecture program like a liberal arts college etc, then apply into an M.Architecture 3.5-year program such as the ones offered by Columbia U, Harvard, or Yale, MIT, etc. These IVYS and MIT do not have an undergrad program that leads to a degree that allows you to sit for the NCARB exam, only graduate school.

If you go straight into a 5-year program, you will start taking Architectural classes right away. These are super intense programs. My dad went to Syracuse U and although the admit rate for the school is 45%, it's about 10% for the architecture school. Cornell has the same 10% admit rate as most likely Rice, Cooper U, and RISD about 15%. When he attended the Freshman class was about 105-110 by the 5th year only 38 graduated. There is severe burnout because the studio classes are very misleading with the time commitment. You have to take about 54-60 hours of studio design over the 5 years or about 6 credits per semester. While a standard liberal arts class is 3 credits for 3 lecture hours, the 6 credit studio class is 12 hours of mandatory studio time 3 times a week plus about 20-30 hours per week of homework. So you are spending 30-40 hours a week in 1 class for 5 years. Then you need to take 4 other classes sometimes 5 to meet the graduation requirements. Here is a link to the curriculum for SU.

https://soa.syr.edu/live/files/437-barch-curriculum-fall-2019-or-later

Therefore, unless you are 100% certain you are ready to commit to 5 years of brutal coursework, sometimes it's better to take the slower path 4+2, or 4+3.5, and enjoy your time as a college student. If you want to end up with a Prestigious degree from MIT, Harvard, Yale, then you are best to take the slower route. I don't have a list of 4 year B.S. Arch programs but you can research those on your own. They would include schools like Ball State, USC, Univ Minnesota, UVA, Univ. of Kansas, Univ of Maryland.

1 Cornell University

2 Rhode Island School of Design

3 Rice University

4 Cooper Union

5 Syracuse University

6 Virginia Tech

7 Pratt Institute

8 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

9 University of Texas, Austin

10 Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

Undergrad Ranking over the past 10 years.

2020 19' 18' 17' 16' 15' 14' 13' 12'

Cornell U 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1

R.I.S.D. 2 6 10 7 6 7 10 7 6

Rice Uni 3 2 6 4 5 3 3 3 5

Cooper U 4 5 15 12 14 13 - 16 14

Syracuse Uni 5 4 3 3 4 5 6 3 7

V Tech 6 8 4 5 3 4 5 7 3

Pratt 7 7 9 8 11 9 11 11 10

Cal Poly SLO 8 3 2 2 2 2 1 5 4

UTAustin 9 10 7 6 7 6 4 6 2

SCI-Arc 10 9 8 10 12 8 9 2 7

Good luck. There are a lot of resources and research you can do.

Best of all, talk to an architect in person.

Cornell has the best architecture program in the USA and MIT and Harvard's are very good as well.