2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Design Major in the Southeast Region
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Design & Applied Arts is the 36th most popular major in the country with 36,323 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , design & applied arts graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $32,210 and had an average of $24,297 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 8,008 design & applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,937 and $26,236 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 design & applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their design & applied arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Design Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree design students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Design & Applied Arts in the Southeast Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Design Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Auburn University is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s design degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.