2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

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Architectural Engineering is the 239th most popular major in the country with 1,012 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, architectural engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $65,501 and had an average of $25,395 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 283 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,555 and $26,729 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 36 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in architectural engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their architectural engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Engineering Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

$72,488 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Auburn, Alabama, this large public school awarded 33 diplomas to qualified masters’s architectural engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Auburn University Architectural Engineering Report

2

University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

#18 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Architectural Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Miami landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Coral Gables, Florida, and it awarded 3 masters’s architectural engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Architectural Engineering at University of Miami

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering

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.