2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture in the Southwest Region

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Interior Architecture is the 257th most popular major in the country with 728 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, interior architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,215 and had an average of $24,409 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 37 interior architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,204 and $21,625 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 interior architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interiors Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in interior architecture. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in interior architecture.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interiors Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree interiors students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture in the Southwest Region

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interiors Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Tempe is a large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 8 masters’s interiors degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Interior Architecture at Arizona State University - Tempe

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University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interiors Major in the Southwest Region. Denton, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s interiors degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full UNT Interior 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

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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