2024 Best Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
7
Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
186
Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
architecture, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #157 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 7 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of architecture. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 186 master's degrees in architecture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Architecture School for Your Master's Degree
The architecture master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality architecture program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to architecture students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other architecture students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized architecture related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for architecture students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The architecture school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.