2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$41,500
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,835 architectural & building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 architectural & building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,902 and $128,547 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in architectural & building sciences/technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their architectural & building sciences/technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. RPI is a private not-for-profit institution located in Troy, New York. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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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%.
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- *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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