2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 99 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general architecture. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general architecture.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree architecture students.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Southwest Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The School of Architecture landed the #1 spot on the list. Paradise Valley, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s architecture degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Prairie View A & M University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region. PVAMU is a medium-sized school located in Prairie View, Texas that handed out 20 masters’s architecture degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Tech University is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 44 masters’s architecture degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
Read full report on General Architecture at UT Austin
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s 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 #5 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 27 masters’s architecture degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about General Architecture at Texas A&M College Station
With a ranking of #6, The University of Texas at Arlington did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Arlington, Texas, and it awarded 80 masters’s architecture degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington
Rice University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s architecture degrees to 16 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on General Architecture at Rice University
University of New Mexico - Main Campus did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school handed out 63 degrees to qualified masters’s architecture students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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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