2025 Best Architectural Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
105Architectural Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,375Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in architectural engineering. It is ranked #239 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for architectural engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 105 degrees in architectural engineering annually.
The architectural engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Architectural Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall Architectural Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Architectural Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Architectural Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Architectural Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the architectural engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Architectural Engineering
Any student who is interested in architectural engineering has to check out Illinois Institute of Technology. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago. A Best Colleges rank of #610 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Illinois Tech is a great school overall.
There were about 23 architectural engineering students who graduated with this degree at Illinois Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of Cincinnati - Main Campus if you want to pursue a degree in architectural engineering. Located in the large city of Cincinnati, UC is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #137 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UC is a great university overall.
There were about 37 architectural engineering students who graduated with this degree at UC in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in architectural engineering needs to look into Milwaukee School of Engineering. MSOE is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Milwaukee. This school ranks 33rd out of 46 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were about 33 architectural engineering students who graduated with this degree at MSOE in the most recent year we have data available.
Lawrence Technological University is a good decision for students interested in a degree in architectural engineering. Lawrence Tech is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Southfield. This university ranks 24th out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 11 architectural engineering students who graduated with this degree at Lawrence Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The architectural engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Architectural Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall Architectural Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
