2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural History & Criticism, General in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural History and Criticism, General Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 140 people earned their degree in architectural history and criticism, general, making the major the 913th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 18 architectural history and criticism, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 architectural history and criticism, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural History and Criticism, General Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in architectural history and criticism, general. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their architectural history and criticism, general program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural History and Criticism, General Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural history and criticism, general students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural History & Criticism, General in the Southeast Region

1

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, Virginia

#4 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural History and Criticism, General Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Virginia is a large school located in Charlottesville, Virginia that handed out 6 bachelors’s architectural history and criticism, general degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Architectural History & Criticism, General at University of Virginia

2

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural History and Criticism, General Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Savannah College of Art and Design landed the #2 spot on the list. Savannah, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s architectural history and criticism, general degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% 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%.

Full SCAD Architectural History & Criticism, General Report

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Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural History and Criticism, General Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s architectural history and criticism, general degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.

Full Vanderbilt Architectural History & Criticism, General Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural History & Criticism, General

Notes and References

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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