General Architecture is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #122 most popular master'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.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 82 master's degrees in general architecture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Architecture School for Your Master's Degree
The architecture master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general architecture students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general architecture students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for general architecture to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general architecture related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general architecture students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study General Architecture in the Middle Atlantic Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in general architecture.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Architecture
It is hard to beat University of Pennsylvania if you want to pursue a master's degree in general architecture. Located in the city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Master's recipients from the general architecture major at University of Pennsylvania make $2,598 more than the standard graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The architecture master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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.
