2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in Georgia

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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 Georgia, there were 90 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,536 and $34,350 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 80 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Architecture Major in Georgia 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

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Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia

#15 overall quality in Georgia

$51,349 Average Early-Career Earnings

$37,950 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kennesaw State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Architecture Major in Georgia for a Bachelor’s list. Kennesaw, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 40 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Architecture at Kennesaw State University

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Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

#1 overall quality in Georgia

$52,288 Average Early-Career Earnings

$30,750 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Architecture Major in Georgia for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 40 bachelors’s architecture degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.

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