2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia

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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 District of Columbia, there were 140 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,497 and $26,712 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 56 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general architecture. That schools that top this list have a program in general architecture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia master’s degree architecture students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in District of Columbia

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Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s architecture degrees to 32 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, 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 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full CUA General Architecture Report

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University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the District of Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 5 masters’s architecture degrees in 2021-2022.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 General Architecture at University of the District of Columbia

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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