Interior Architecture isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #200 in popularity out of 363 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for interior architecture students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 62 bachelor's degrees in interior architecture to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for interior architecture students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Interior Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Interior Architecture in the Middle Atlantic Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in interior architecture.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Interiors
Syracuse University is a good choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in interior architecture. Located in the city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Soon after graduation, interiors bachelor's recipients generally make about $39,591 at the beginning of their careers.
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).