2023 Most Focused Colleges for Architecture (Other) in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$42,000
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Architecture (Other) is the 326th most popular major in the country with 202 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, architecture (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,351 and had an average of $26,123 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 51 architecture (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in architecture (other). That schools that top this list have a program in architecture (other) in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the New England Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Architecture (Other) in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Holyoke College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and it awarded 9 ’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Connecticut College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in New London, Connecticut, and it awarded 4 ’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 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Conn College Architecture (Other) Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Architecture Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Suffolk University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified ’s architecture students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Architecture (Other) at Suffolk University
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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
- *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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