When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in
architecture & related services sits in the middle of the road, ranking #21 out of 37 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 17 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Architecture & Related Services Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,257 master's degrees in architecture & related services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
The architecture & related services master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality architecture & related services program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master'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 school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination 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 master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master'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 many resources a school devotes to architecture & related services students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of architecture & related services students who choose to seek a master'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 much debt architecture & related services students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized architecture & related services related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for architecture & related services students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Architecture & Related Services Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.