2025 Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
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 reviewed 7 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of architectural engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 190 bachelor's degrees in architectural engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Architectural Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of architectural engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality architectural engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
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 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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to architectural engineering students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of architectural engineering 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 easy is it for architectural engineering 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 architectural engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for architectural engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Architectural Engineering Schools
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 the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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