list of tallest educational buildings
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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

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

The 17th-tallest building in Tokyo.

[2]

3

Mode Gakuen Spiral Towers

Multiple

Nagoya

Japan

170 m

558 ft

36

2008

Nakamura-ku

Home to three vocational schools.

[3]

4

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.

[4]

5

Cathedral of Learning

Assumption University

Bangkok

Thailand

159 m

522 ft

39

2002

Suvarnabhumi

The Design and Name are eclectic in nature, typefying the traditional Thai veneration of knowledge and learning.

[5]

6

Vertical Campus

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.

[6]

6

Guang Hua Tower

Fudan University

Shanghai

China

142m

465 ft

30

2005

Yangpu

The tallest educational-use building in China.

[7]

7

Shinjuku Building

Kogakuin University

Tokyo

Japan

133 m

436 ft

29

1989

Nishi-Shinjuku

[8]

8

STEC Information Building

Kogakuin University

Tokyo

Japan

124 m

405 ft

28

1992

Nishi-Shinjuku

[9]

9

Boissonade Tower

Hosei University

Tokyo

Japan

122 m

400 ft

27

2000

Chiyoda

Named after Gustave Emile Boissonade

[10]

10

Academy of Sciences Headquarters

Russian Academy of Sciences

Moscow

Russia

120 m

394 ft

29

1989

Gagarinsky District

[11]

11

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.[12]

[13]

12

Liberty Tower

Meiji University

Tokyo

Japan

119 m

390 ft

23

1998

[14]

13

Torre de la Universidad Laboral

Universidad Laboral de Gijón

Gijón

Spain

117 m

384 ft

17

1956

14

AfE-Turm

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt am Main

Germany

116 m

382 ft

32

1972

Westend-Süd

Bordered by Robert-Mayer-Straße and Senckenberganlage

15

Erasmus MC Faculteitsgebouw

Erasmus MC

Rotterdam

Netherlands

114 m

374 ft

27

1969

Centrum

Faculty building.

16

Rhodes Tower

Cleveland State University

Cleveland

United States

111 m

363 ft

20

1971

St. Vincent Quadrangle, Downtown

17

Academy of Sciences

Latvian Academy of Sciences

Riga

Latvia

108 m

353 ft

21

1955

18

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.

19

Eshkol Tower

University of Haifa

Haifa

Israel

102 m

335 ft

30

1978

20

Osaka Mode Gaen

Osaka Mode Gakuen

Osaka

Japan

102 m

335 ft

21

1999

21

Edison Building

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia

United States

99 m

325 ft

23

1927

Center City

At 130 South 9th Street. Home of the Jefferson College of Health Professions.

22

Main Building (the Tower)

University of Texas at Austin

Austin

United States

94 m

307 ft

29

1937

23

Culture School

Tokyo

Japan

92 m

302 ft

20

1999

Shibuya

24

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

[15]

25

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.

26

TU Delft faculteit ITS

Delft University of Technology

Delft

Netherlands

90 m

295 ft

23

1969

27

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

28

Erasmusgebouw

Radboud University Nijmegen

Nijmegen

Netherlands

88 m

289 ft

21

1973

29

Semmelweis University

Semmelweis University

Budapest

Hungary

88 m

289 ft

23

1976

Józsefváros

30

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

31

South Ural State University

South Ural State University

Chelyabinsk

Russia

86 m

282 ft

18

1959

Tsentralny

32

Geomatikum

University of Hamburg

Hamburg

Germany

85 m

279 ft

20

1975

Rotherbaum

33

Loyola University Tower

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago

United States

84 m

275 ft

16

1994

34

Moos Health Sciences Tower

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis

United States

82 m

268 ft

17

1974

35

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.

36

Akademia Ekonomiczna

Poznań University of Economics

Poznań

Poland

81 m

264 ft

19

1991

37

Victoria University

Victoria University

Melbourne

Australia

80 m

262 ft

20

City of Melbourne

On Flinders Street

38

33 West 42nd Street

State University of New York State College of Optometry

New York City

United States

80 m

262 ft

18

1912

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

[16]

39

Telefunken Haus

Technical University of Berlin,

Berlin

Germany

79 m

259 ft

22

1961

Charlottenburg

Nearby Ernst-Reuter-Platz

40

23rd Street Building

Baruch College

New York City

United States

78 m

257 ft

16

1930

Flatiron District, Manhattan

41

Erasmus Universiteit Gebouw H

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Netherlands

78 m

256 ft

20

1970

41

Heinz Memorial Chapel

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh

United States

78 m

256 ft

1

1933–1938

Oakland

French Gothic Revival university chapel

41

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Bratislava

Slovakia

78 m

256 ft

24

44

Arts Tower

University of Sheffield

Sheffield

United Kingdom

78 m

255 ft

20

1965

45

Dunton Tower

Carleton University

Ottawa

Canada

77 m

253 ft

22

1974

46

Kline Biology Tower

Yale University

New Haven

United States

76 m

250 ft

16

1966

Designed by Philip Johnson

47

Patterson Office Tower

University of Kentucky

Lexington

United States

76 m

250 ft

20

1968

48

Tower 75

Meijo University

Nagoya

Japan

76 m

249 ft

16

2002

Tempaku-ku

49

New Medical Tower

Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Tokyo

Japan

76 m

249 ft

17

1996

50

Lurie Medical Research Building

Northwestern University

Chicago

United States

76 m

248 ft

13

2005

51

Van Hise Hall

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Madison

United States

73 m

241 ft

19

1967

On 1220 Linden Drive. Slated for destruction sometime before 2025 under the university's master plan. Named for former university president Charles R. Van Hise.

[17]

52

"The Tower"

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

New York City

United States

73 m

240 ft

14

2012

HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Community College Building

HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Community College

So Kon Po

Hong Kong

19

[18]

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