2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture in the Southeast Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 architecture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Architecture is the 147th most popular major in the country with 4,650 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 927 architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in architecture. That schools that top this list have a program in architecture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree architecture students.
Top 4 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Georgia Tech is a large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 4 doctorate’s architecture degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus Architecture Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Florida is a public institution located in Gainesville, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 162 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Architecture at University of Florida
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified doctorate’s architecture students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 full report on Architecture at Virginia Tech
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southeast Region. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s architecture degrees to 26 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Architecture at Mississippi 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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