General Architecture is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #122 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for general architecture students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 188 master's degrees in general architecture during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Architecture School for Your Master's Degree
The architecture master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general architecture students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general architecture students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for general architecture to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general architecture related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general architecture students working on their master's degree.
The architecture school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study General Architecture in the Southeast Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in general architecture.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Architecture
It is difficult to beat University of Florida if you want to pursue a master's degree in general architecture. Located in the city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Master's recipients from the general architecture major at University of Florida make $7,413 above the average college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
It's difficult to beat Louisiana Tech University if you want to pursue a master's degree in general architecture. Louisiana Tech is a large public university located in the distant town of Ruston.
Students who graduate with their master's from the architecture program report average early career earnings of $50,602.
Any student who is interested in a master's degree in general architecture needs to take a look at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Located in the city of Lafayette, UL Lafayette is a public university with a large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the architecture program make about $46,511 in their early career salary.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The architecture master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
