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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 for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Architecture & Related Services is the 29th most popular major in the country with 17,325 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Texas, there were 1,295 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,607 and $22,513 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,315 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 4 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.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in Texas” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in Texas”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 doctorate’s architecture and related services degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Southern University landed the #2 spot on the list. TSU is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 1 doctorate’s architecture and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lubbock, Texas, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s architecture and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, 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%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #4 spot on the list. UT Austin is a large public school situated in Austin, Texas. It awarded 2 doctorate’s architecture and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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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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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