by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 4,854 people earned their degree in architecture, making the major the 147th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 954 architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 713 architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 11 colleges that offered a degree in architecture. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in architecture.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree architecture students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Prairie View A & M University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. PVAMU is a medium-sized school located in Prairie View, Texas that handed out 45 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 11 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas Tech University is a public institution located in Lubbock, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 125 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Out of the 11 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. UNM is a public institution located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The school has a large population, and it awarded 56 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this large public school handed out 76 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s architecture students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Architecture at The University of Texas at San Antonio
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school handed out 89 degrees to qualified bachelors’s architecture students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, 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 86%.
Rice University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
With a ranking of #7, The University of Texas at Arlington did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. UT Arlington is located in Arlington, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 80 bachelors’s architecture degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% 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%.
Texas A&M University - College Station ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 98 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
Read more about Architecture at Texas A&M University - College Station
The University of Texas at Austin came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region ranking. UT Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 56 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Read full report on Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin
Arizona State University - Tempe ranked #10 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 59 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on architecture Major in the Southwest Region ranking. University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is a large school located in Norman, Oklahoma that handed out 11 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, 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 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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