2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology in the Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes region, there were 729 architectural and building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 architectural and building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology in the Great Lakes Region

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Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Illinois Institute of Technology Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Report

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s architectural and building sciences/technology students 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 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at UIUC

• Most Focused Doctor’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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