2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture in the New England Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 architecture Major in the New England 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 New England region, there were 302 architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in architecture. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their architecture program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree architecture students.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture in the New England Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Harvard University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It awarded 19 doctorate’s architecture 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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Architecture at Harvard
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the New England Region. This fairly large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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%.
Full Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on architecture Major in the New England Region list. Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 25 doctorate’s architecture degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Yale Architecture Report
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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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