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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in District of Columbia” 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 District of Columbia, there were 132 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,515 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 69 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in architecture and related services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in architecture and related services.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in District of Columbia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia master’s degree architecture & related services students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #1 spot on the list. Catholic University of America is a medium-sized school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 39 masters’s architecture and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the District of Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 7 masters’s architecture and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Architecture & Related Services at University of the District of Columbia
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgetown University landed the #3 spot on the list. Georgetown University is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 19 masters’s architecture and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architecture & Related Services Major in District of Columbia. GWU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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- 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%.
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- *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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