a bachelor's degree in general architecture is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #93 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Ohio to determine which ones were the best for general architecture students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 268 bachelor's degrees in general architecture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Architecture School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The architecture bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality architecture program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general architecture students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general architecture students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for general architecture to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general architecture related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general architecture students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in Ohio ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Architecture in Ohio
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general architecture.
University of Cincinnati - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in general architecture. Located in the city of Cincinnati, UC is a public university with a very large student population.
Those general architecture students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Cincinnati - Main Campus make $3,257 more than the typical architecture student.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in general architecture has to check out Ohio State University - Main Campus. Located in the large city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the architecture program earn an average of $35,785 for their early career.
Kent State University at Kent is a wonderful decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in general architecture. Located in the large suburb of Kent, Kent State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the architecture program state that they receive average early career wages of $31,725.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).