Recent trends indicate that climate change has been accompanied with variations in indoor thermal comfort amongst other environmental variables. Owing to the changes in the performance of students in schools of architecture, it becomes imperative to review existing studies that has investigated indoor thermal comfort parameters and its impact on the students’ academic performance. Therefore, this study is aimed at spotting out a research gap in extant literature evaluating the effects of indoor thermal comfort conditions on academic performance of architecture students within the tropical countries in articles published between 2010 and 2024. The study employed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) methodology to identify and select 5 relevant articles. A narrative synthesis approach was used to discuss and interpret the findings from these selected articles. Hence, the results from the review shows that studio-related attributes and architecture students’ learning abilities varied with indoor thermal comfort conditions (e.g., studio temperature ranges from 22 to 32 °C). Specifically, the review revealed a scarcity of studies examining the association between indoor thermal comfort conditions and the academic performance of architecture students in tropical climates. Therefore, it recommends further research in this climatic zone with special reference to the South-east geopolitical zone of Nigeria due to rapid growth in the number of architecture schools, therein. Hence, research in this direction will pave the way for the determination of design guidelines for architecture studios in the South-east in view to improve the academic performance of students.