2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region

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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 Great Lakes region, there were 676 architectural & building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 architectural & building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,470 and $126,402 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in architectural & building sciences/technology. That schools that top this list have a program in architectural & building sciences/technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology in the Great Lakes Region

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Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region. Illinois Tech is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Illinois Tech Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Report

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 125 doctorate’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at UIUC

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

Footnotes

• *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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