Interior Architecture isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #200 in popularity out of 363 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for interior architecture students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 64 bachelor's degrees in interior architecture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to interior architecture students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other interior architecture students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt interior architecture students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized interior architecture related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for interior architecture students working on their bachelor's degree.
The interiors school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Interior Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Interior Architecture in the Far Western US Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in interior architecture.
Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Interiors
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in interior architecture needs to look into California State University - Sacramento. Located in the large city of Sacramento, Sac State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the interiors program earn an average of $44,343 in their early career salary.
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).