by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 17,325 people earned their degree in architecture and related services, making the major the 29th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, architecture and related services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,602 and had an average of $25,146 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 2,071 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,572 and $25,410 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 36 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in architecture and related services. That schools that top this list have a program in architecture and related services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend City Colleges of Chicago - Harold Washington College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this medium-sized public school awarded 18 diplomas to qualified associates’s architecture and related services students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Henry Ford College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Henry Ford College is located in Dearborn, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 associates’s architecture and related services degrees to qualified students.
Full Henry Ford College Architecture & Related Services Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Rapids Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s architecture and related services students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Architecture & Related Services at Grand Rapids Community College
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, City Colleges of Chicago - Wilbur Wright College landed the #4 spot on the list. City Colleges of Chicago - Wilbur Wright College is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 associates’s architecture and related services degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Joliet Junior College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region. Joliet Junior College is located in Joliet, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 associates’s architecture and related services degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Architecture & Related Services at Joliet Junior College
Lansing Community College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #6. LCC is located in Lansing, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s architecture and related services degrees to qualified students.
Andrews University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #6. Andrews University is a small school located in Berrien Springs, Michigan that handed out 10 associates’s architecture and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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