2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Sciences & Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Architect Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Architectural Sciences & Technology is the 107th most popular major in the country with 6,781 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, architectural sciences and technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,874 and had an average of $24,019 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,619 architectural sciences and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,150 and $25,052 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 architectural sciences and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architect Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in architectural sciences and technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their architectural sciences and technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architect Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree architect science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Sciences & Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architect Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 2 doctorate’s architect science degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architect Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Troy, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 9 degrees to qualified doctorate’s architect science students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, 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 91%.
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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
- *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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