I am grad student in architecture and I am sorry, I dont think Russia is the best place to be studying architecture in the world.... esp for the reason of vodka as a drink...
It is so dependant on what YOU want out of grad school for your choice of school - if you like theory there is no doubt that Princeton is the best school for that; comps, animation and urbanism - def. UCLA, and so on .... my personal top arch grad schools would be: (in no particular order) Princeton, Columbia, Rice, Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard for the USA and of course there is always the AA in london ... there are plenty of good euro arch schools, but generally, most great architects that come from europe prefer to come do masters in USA, so that would tell you something about institutions and available resources
if you are still 1st year though.. watch out, the drop-out rate of architecture by the 2nd year is very high.. hang on there
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