2025 Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alabama

When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #180 out of 363 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alabama ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 162 bachelor's degrees in architectural engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 architectural engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other architectural engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 architectural engineering 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 architectural engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for architectural engineering 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 Architectural Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alabama list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Architectural Engineering in Alabama

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering.

Top Alabama Schools for a Bachelor's in Architectural Engineering

1

Auburn University
Auburn, AL

147 Annual Graduates

$77,115 Median Starting Salary

$41,264 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering needs to look into Auburn University. Located in the city of Auburn, Auburn is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the architectural engineering program make an average of $77,115 in the first couple years of working.

More information about a bachelor’s in architectural engineering from Auburn University

2

The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

15 Annual Graduates

The University of Alabama is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of Tuscaloosa, UA is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in architectural engineering from The University of Alabama

Best Architectural Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Architectural Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	14
Tennessee	220	6
North Carolina	213	19

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Rankings in Majors Related to Architectural Engineering

Architectural Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Architectural Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Architectural Engineering	162

Majors Similar to Architectural Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	711
Civil Engineering	344
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	302
Electrical Engineering	286
Chemical Engineering	262
Computer Engineering	209
Industrial Engineering	131
Biomedical Engineering	59
Biological Engineering	50
Materials Engineering	24

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.