2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Great Lakes Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
General Architecture is the 127th most popular major in the country with 4,982 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,005 and had an average of $26,624 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 840 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,792 and $25,053 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general architecture. That schools that top this list have a program in general architecture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree architecture students.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Andrews University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s architecture students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Rapids Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Grand Rapids Community College is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s architecture degrees to qualified students.
Read more about General Architecture at Grand Rapids Community College
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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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