2024 Best Architecture Doctor's Degree Schools
12
Colleges in the United States
111
Doctor's Degrees
Architecture is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #149 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 12 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Architecture Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 111 doctor's degrees in architecture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Architecture School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of architecture for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on architecture students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of architecture students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized architecture related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for architecture students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Architecture Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Architecture Doctor's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.