2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Plains States Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 6,685 people earned their degree in architectural & building sciences/technology, making the major the 126th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 532 architectural & building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 151 architectural & building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in architectural & building sciences/technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in architectural & building sciences/technology.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology in the Plains States Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees to 78 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at Iowa State
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Plains States Region. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees to 41 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at WUSTL
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Plains States Region. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at South Dakota State University
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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