List of tallest educational buildings

Last updated February 16, 2024

This is a list of the tallest buildings in the world used primarily for education , defined as having an occupiable height that is 90% devoted to classroom, research, and educational administration use. It excludes dormitories.

List

#	Building	School	City	Country	Height (m)	Height (ft)	Floors	Year	District	Notes	Source
1	Main Building	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Moscow	Russia	240 m	787 ft	36	1953	Ramenki	The tallest educational-use building in the world.	^[1]
2	Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower	Multiple	Tokyo	Japan	204 m	668 ft	50	2008	Nishi-Shinjuku	17th-tallest Tokyo building in 2008.	^[2]
3	IE Tower	IE University	Madrid	Spain	180 m	590 ft	36	2021	Fuencarral-El Pardo	New main building for students at IE University studying for a baccalaureate degree.	^[3]
4	Mode Gakuen Spiral Towers	Multiple	Nagoya	Japan	170 m	558 ft	36	2008	Nakamura-ku	Home to three vocational schools.	^[4]
5	Cathedral of Learning	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	United States	163 m	535 ft	42	1926–1937	Oakland	This Gothic Revival tower was the world's first educational skyscraper and is home to the Nationality Rooms.	^[5]
6	Cathedral of Learning	Assumption University of Thailand	Bangkok	Thailand	159 m	522 ft	39	2002	Suvarnabhumi	The eclectic design typifies the traditional Thai veneration of knowledge and learning.	^[6]
7	Wabash Building	Roosevelt University	Chicago	United States	143m	469 ft	32	2012	South Loop	The Wabash Building is the second-tallest higher-education building in the United States and the sixth tallest in the world.	^[7]
8	Guang Hua Tower	Fudan University	Shanghai	China	142m	465 ft	30	2005	Yangpu	The tallest educational-use building in China.	^{[ citation needed ]}
9	Zhixin Building (Block A)	Shandong University	Jinan	China	139.1m	456 ft	27	2010	Licheng	With a 30m-tall bell tower. 136.2m is the original design height.	^[8]
10	Shinjuku Building	Kogakuin University	Tokyo	Japan	133 m	436 ft	29	1989	Nishi-Shinjuku		^[9]
11	STEC Information Building	Kogakuin University	Tokyo	Japan	124 m	405 ft	28	1992	Nishi-Shinjuku		^[10]
12	Boissonade Tower	Hosei University	Tokyo	Japan	122 m	400 ft	27	2000	Chiyoda	Named after Gustave Emile Boissonade	^[11]
=13	Academy of Sciences Headquarters	Russian Academy of Sciences	Moscow	Russia	120 m	394 ft	29	1989	Gagarinsky District		^[12]
=13	UTS Tower	University of Technology, Sydney	Sydney	Australia	120 m	394 ft	33	1978	City of Sydney	Bordered by Broadway. The 60th-tallest building in Sydney.^[13]	^[14]
=15	Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning	University of Toronto	Toronto	Canada	119 m	390 ft	21	2013			^[15]
=15	Liberty Tower	Meiji University	Tokyo	Japan	119 m	390 ft	23	1998			^[16]
17	Torre de la Universidad Laboral	Universidad Laboral de Gijón	Gijón	Spain	117 m	384 ft	17	1956
18	25 Park Place	Georgia State University	Atlanta	United States	115 m	377 ft	28	1978
19	Erasmus MC Faculteitsgebouw	Erasmus MC	Rotterdam	Netherlands	114 m	374 ft	27	1969	Centrum	Faculty building.
20	ASEEC Tower	Airlangga University	Surabaya	Indonesia	112 m	367	20	2022	Gubeng	Mixed-Uses University building.	^[17]
21	Rhodes Tower	Cleveland State University	Cleveland	United States	111 m	363 ft	20	1971	St. Vincent Quadrangle, Downtown
22	Academy of Sciences	Latvian Academy of Sciences	Riga	Latvia	108 m	353 ft	21	1955
23	University Hall	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	United States	103 m	338 ft	28	1965	Near West Side	Designed in Brutalist style by Walter Netsch. Constructed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The south portion of the 2nd floor can be seen near the end of the 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction .
=24	Eshkol Tower	University of Haifa	Haifa	Israel	102 m	335 ft	30	1978
=24	Osaka Mode Gaen	Osaka Mode Gakuen	Osaka	Japan	102 m	335 ft	21	1999
=26	UNIP Paraíso/Vergueiro	Paulista University	São Paulo	Brazil	100 m	328 ft	25		Aclimação	The building has a 123 m broadcast tower on top of it.
=26	BRAC University UB02	BRAC University	Dhaka	Bangladesh	100 m	328 ft	20	2012	Dhaka, Bangladesh	66. Mohakhali.
28	UW Tower	University of Washington	Seattle	United States	99 m	325 ft	22	1975		Administration Building, designed by NBBJ.
28	Pinisi Tower	State University of Makassar	Makassar	Indonesia	97.5 m	320 ft	17	2012			^[18]
29	Main Building (the Tower)	University of Texas at Austin	Austin	United States	94 m	307 ft	29	1937
30	Bunka Gakuen main building	Bunka Fashion College&Bunka Gakuen University	Tokyo	Japan	92 m	302 ft	20	1999	Shibuya		^[19]
31	181 Mercer Street	New York University	New York City	United States	91 m	299 ft	23	2021	Greenwich Village		^[20]
=32	Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall	De La Salle University	Manila	Philippines	90 m	297 ft	21	2006	Taft Avenue		^[21]
=32	W. E. B. Du Bois Library	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst	United States	90 m	297 ft	26	1974		Tallest library in the United States	^[22]
=32	Tour Jussieu	University of Paris (Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris Diderot University) Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris	Paris	France	90 m	295 ft	27	1971		Part of the Jussieu Campus. Administration building.
=32	TU Delft faculteit ITS	Delft University of Technology	Delft	Netherlands	90 m	295 ft	23	1969
=32	Green Building	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	United States	90 m	295 ft	21	1964		Designed by I. M. Pei, named after Cecil Howard Green
=37	Erasmusgebouw	Radboud University Nijmegen	Nijmegen	Netherlands	88 m	289 ft	21	1973
=37	Semmelweis University	Semmelweis University	Budapest	Hungary	88 m	289 ft	23	1976	Józsefváros
=37	1440 Canal	Tulane University	New Orleans	United States	88 m	288 ft	21	1972	Central Business District	Also known as the Tidewater Building and Tidewater Place. Home to Tulane University Health Sciences Center administrative offices and Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. WWOZ has its antenna and transmitter atop the building
=40	University of Belgrano campus	University of Belgrano	Buenos Aires	Argentina	86 m	282 ft	22		Belgrano
=40	Faculties of health sciences	University of Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires	Argentina	86 m	282 ft	19	1944	Recoleta		^[23]
=40	South Ural State University	South Ural State University	Chelyabinsk	Russia	86 m	282 ft	18	1959	Tsentralny
=43	Rajabai Clock Tower	University of Mumbai	Mumbai	India	85 m	280 ft	28	1878	Fort		^[24]
=43	Geomatikum	University of Hamburg	Hamburg	Germany	85 m	279 ft	20	1975	Rotherbaum
45	Loyola University Tower	Loyola University Chicago	Chicago	United States	84 m	275 ft	16	1994
46	Moos Health Sciences Tower	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis	United States	82 m	268 ft	17	1974
=47	Fenn Tower	Cleveland State University	Cleveland	United States	81 m	266 ft	22	1929			^[25]
=47	Law Tower	Boston University	Boston	United States	81 m	265 ft	17	1964	Fenway-Kenmore	The tallest law school building in America, located at 765 Commonwealth Avenue, site of Boston University School of Law.
=47	Akademia Ekonomiczna	Poznań University of Economics	Poznań	Poland	81 m	264 ft	19	1991
=50	Victoria University	Victoria University	Melbourne	Australia	80 m	262 ft	20		City of Melbourne	On Flinders Street
=50	33 West 42nd Street	State University of New York State College of Optometry	New York City	United States	80 m	262 ft	18	1931	Midtown Manhattan	Opposite Bryant Park and the New York Public Library Main Branch; the college's only building, including all classrooms, laboratories, library, research space and patient clinics	^[26]
52	Telefunken Haus	Technical University of Berlin,	Berlin	Germany	79 m	259 ft	22	1961	Charlottenburg	Nearby Ernst-Reuter-Platz
=53	23rd Street Building	Baruch College	New York City	United States	78 m	257 ft	16	1930	Flatiron District, Manhattan
=53	Erasmus Universiteit Gebouw H	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Netherlands	78 m	256 ft	20	1970
=53	Heinz Memorial Chapel	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	United States	78 m	256 ft	1	1933–1938	Oakland	French Gothic Revival university chapel
=53	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava	Bratislava	Slovakia	78 m	256 ft	24
=53	Arts Tower	University of Sheffield	Sheffield	United Kingdom	78 m	256 ft	20	1965
58	Dunton Tower	Carleton University	Ottawa	Canada	77 m	253 ft	22	1974
=59	Kline Biology Tower	Yale University	New Haven	United States	76 m	250 ft	16	1966		Designed by Philip Johnson
=59	Patterson Office Tower	University of Kentucky	Lexington	United States	76 m	250 ft	20	1968
=59	Tower 75	Meijo University	Nagoya	Japan	76 m	249 ft	16	2002	Tempaku-ku
=59	New Medical Tower	Tokyo Medical and Dental University	Tokyo	Japan	76 m	249 ft	17	1996
=59	Lurie Medical Research Building	Northwestern University	Chicago	United States	76 m	248 ft	13	2005
=64	Van Hise Hall	University of Wisconsin–Madison	Madison	United States	73 m	241 ft	19	1967		On 1220 Linden Drive. Slated for destruction sometime after 2035 under the university's master plan. Named for former university president Charles R. Van Hise.	^[27]
=64	"The Tower"	John Jay College of Criminal Justice	New York City	United States	73 m	240 ft	14	2012
66	Golden Jubilee Building	National Institute of Technology Rourkela	Rourkela	India	72 m	236 ft	14	2020	Sundergarh	Tallest educational building in India and one of the tallest educational buildings in the whole of South-East Asia	^[28]
67	Belfer Hall	Yeshiva University	New York City	United States	71.6 m	235 ft	18	1969	Washington Heights, Manhattan	Because of its location in the Heights, it is the highest roof point based on elevation in NYC	^[29]
68	Northwest Corner Building	Columbia University	New York City	United States	70 m	229 ft	14	2010			^[30]
69	Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center	Columbia University	New York City	United States	67 m	220 ft	14	2016			^[31]
70	h_da-Hochhaus	Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences	Darmstadt	Germany	66 m	218 ft	16	1965	Darmstadt-West	Tallest building in Darmstadt. The building was extended and renovated in 2011.	^[32]
=71	Carlos Morel Municipal School of Fine Arts	Carlos Morel Municipal School of Fine Arts	Quilmes	Argentina	65 m	213 ft	15	1962		It was originally built as the municipal building (city hall).
=71	U-1 ("У-1") building	Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute	Kharkiv	Ukraine	65 m	213 ft	14	1974		Hosting several faculties, departments and many general-purpose auditoriums. Equipped with high-speed elevators.
73	Senate House	University of London	London	United Kingdom	64 m	210 ft	19	1937	Bloomsbury
74	Main Building (University of Notre Dame)	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame	United States	57 m	187 ft	7	1879
=75	Líceum (Building A)	Eszterházy Károly University	Eger	Hungary	54 m	177 ft	10	1765-1785	Heves	In the east side of the building is the observatory tower with a camera obscura on the 10th floor. In the building was a real observatorium, what is now museum.	^[33]
=75	Jesse Hall	University of Missouri	Columbia, Missouri	United States	54 m	177 ft	8	1894	Downtown Columbia	Tallest building in Columbia. South wall of Francis Quadrangle.	^[34]
77	James Hight Building	University of Canterbury	Christchurch, New Zealand	New Zealand	53 m	175 ft	11	1974			^[35]

Unknown height

Building	School	City	Country	Floors	Year	Source
Binus University – Alam Sutera Campus	Bina Nusantara University	Tangerang	Indonesia	22	2014	^[36]
HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Community College Building	HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Community College	Hong Kong	China	19		^[37]
B Block (Elements)	PES University	Bengaluru	India	14	2017