2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Southwest Region

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Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology is the 126th most popular major in the country with 6,003 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 367 architectural and building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 109 architectural and building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in architectural and building sciences/technology. That schools that top this list have a program in architectural and building sciences/technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology in the Southwest Region

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Southwest Region. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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2

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 24 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full OSU Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Report

3

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Southwest Region. University of Arizona is a public institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 44 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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4

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#20 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Southwest Region. University of Oklahoma is a public institution located in Norman, Oklahoma. The school has a large population, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology

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.

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