2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Tech Major

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Architectural Engineering Technology is the 238th most popular major in the country with 1,290 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, architectural engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,535 and had an average of $22,395 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 architectural engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Tech Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in architectural engineering technology. That schools that top this list have a program in architectural engineering technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Tech Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Tech Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering Technology

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

Top 5% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Tech Major list. Purdue is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 37 masters’s AE tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Architectural Engineering Technology at Purdue

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Buffalo State
Buffalo, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Buffalo State. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Tech Major. Buffalo State is a medium-sized school located in Buffalo, New York that handed out 0 masters’s AE tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Buffalo State Architectural Engineering Technology Report

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

Footnotes

• *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.