2023 Most Well Attended Architecture Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s

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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 Alabama, there were 69 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,456 and $29,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,756 and $28,178 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Architecture Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general architecture. To top this list, a school must have a successful general architecture program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Architecture Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama bachelor’s degree architecture students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in Alabama

1

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

#1 overall quality in Alabama

$50,456 Average Early-Career Earnings

$29,750 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Architecture Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 61 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama

#3 overall quality in Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Samford University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Architecture Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s list. Samford University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Birmingham, Alabama. It awarded 1 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Architecture at Samford

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Southeast Region
• Most Popular Bachelor’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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