Interior Architecture is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #200 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Interior Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 87 bachelor's degrees in interior architecture to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Interior Architecture School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The interiors bachelor'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
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on interior architecture students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of interior architecture students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for interior architecture to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized interior architecture related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for interior architecture students working on their bachelor's degree.
The interiors 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 Interior Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Interior Architecture in the Rocky Mountains Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in interior architecture.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Interiors
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in interior architecture. Located in the midsize city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the interiors program earn about $45,774 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 interiors bachelor'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.
