2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in District of Columbia

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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 District of Columbia, there were 107 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,497 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 61 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in District of Columbia

1

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

$46,662 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia list. CUA is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 53 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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2

University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the District of Columbia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s architecture students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on General Architecture at University of the District of Columbia

3

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #3 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on General Architecture at Howard University

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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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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