2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Studies Major

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In 2020-2021, 5 people earned their degree in architectural studies, making the major the 1371st most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 architectural studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Studies Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in architectural studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in architectural studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Studies Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree architectural studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Studies

1

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s architectural studies degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Architectural Studies at UH

2

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#24 overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Studies Major. Washington University in St Louis is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Architectural Studies at Washington University in St Louis

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.