If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in
architecture & related services, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #27 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 10 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Architecture & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,006 bachelor's degrees in architecture & related services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Your choice of architecture & related services for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on architecture & related services students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of architecture & related services students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt architecture & related services students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Architecture & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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