2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
General Architecture is the 127th most popular major in the country with 4,814 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $49,038 and had an average of $30,541 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 910 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,912 and $27,846 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general architecture. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general architecture program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified doctorate’s architecture students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Architecture at Texas A&M University - College Station
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, 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 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Architecture at Arizona State University - Tempe
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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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