2025 Best Architectural Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
308Architectural Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,375Avg Early-Career Salary
If you're seeking a degree in architectural engineering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #239 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for architectural engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 308 degrees in architectural engineering to qualified students.
The architectural engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Architectural Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for architectural engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Architectural Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
The architectural engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Architectural Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Architectural Engineering in the Southeast Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the architectural engineering degree levels they offer.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Architectural Engineering
Auburn University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in architectural engineering. Located in the small city of Auburn, Auburn is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #169 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Auburn is a great university overall.
There were about 240 architectural engineering students who graduated with this degree at Auburn in the most recent year we have data available. Those architectural engineering students who get their degree from Auburn University earn $8,964 more than the average architectural engineering student.
It's difficult to beat The University of Alabama if you wish to pursue a degree in architectural engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of Tuscaloosa, UA is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were roughly 12 architectural engineering students who graduated with this degree at UA in the most recent year we have data available.
North Carolina A & T State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in architectural engineering. Located in the large city of Greensboro, NC A&T is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 51st out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 28 architectural engineering students who graduated with this degree at NC A&T in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the architectural engineering program make an average of $67,152 for their early career.
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).
The architectural engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Architectural Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for architectural engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
