2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$52,142
Avg Salary
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 the Southwest region, there were 961 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,912 and $24,587 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 149 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 8 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.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Southwest Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The School of Architecture landed the #1 spot on the list. TSOA is a private not-for-profit institution located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on General Architecture at The School of Architecture
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Prairie View A & M University landed the #2 spot on the list. Prairie View, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s architecture degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
Full Prairie View A & M University General Architecture Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech University is a public institution located in Lubbock, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 38 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Full Texas Tech General Architecture Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #4 spot on the list. UT Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 52 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UT Austin General Architecture Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M College Station is a public institution located in College Station, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 35 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Read full report on General Architecture at Texas A&M University - College Station
With a ranking of #6, The University of Texas at Arlington did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at Arlington is a public institution located in Arlington, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 80 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full The University of Texas at Arlington General Architecture Report
Rice University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 18 diplomas to qualified masters’s architecture students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Rice University General Architecture Report
University of New Mexico - Main Campus came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the Southwest Region ranking. UNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 58 masters’s architecture degrees to qualified students.
Full UNM General 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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