2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in Oregon

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in Oregon” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 4,982 people earned their degree in general architecture, making the major the 127th most popular in the United States. 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 Oregon, there were 164 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,278 and $24,908 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 57 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,963 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in Oregon” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general architecture. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general architecture.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in Oregon

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in Oregon

1

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

#1 overall quality in Oregon

$53,133 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Eugene, Oregon, and it awarded 38 masters’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Architecture at UO

2

Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

#6 overall quality in Oregon

$48,151 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Portland State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Portland State University is located in Portland, Oregon and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 masters’s architecture degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Architecture at Portland State University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture

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.

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