If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general architecture, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #93 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 9 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 874 bachelor's degrees in general architecture to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great General Architecture School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of general architecture for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general architecture students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general architecture students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt general architecture students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general architecture related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general architecture students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 Best General Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Texas A&M University - College Station is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in general architecture. Located in the city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a very large student population.
After graduation, architecture bachelor's recipients generally make about $45,431 in the first five years of their career.
The University of Texas at Austin is a great choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in general architecture. Located in the large city of Austin, UT Austin is a public university with a very large student population.
General Architecture bachelor's degree recipients from The University of Texas at Austin receive an earnings boost of approximately $11,005 over the typical income of general architecture majors.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in general architecture needs to check out Texas Tech University. Texas Tech is a very large public university located in the large city of Lubbock.
After graduation, architecture bachelor's recipients generally make an average of $39,060 at the beginning of their careers.
It's difficult to beat Arizona State University - Tempe if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in general architecture. ASU - Tempe is a very large public university located in the city of Tempe.
After graduation, architecture bachelor's recipients usually make around $37,918 in the first five years of their career.
Located in the large city of Houston, UH is a public university with a very large student population.
General Architecture bachelor's degree recipients from University of Houston get an earnings boost of approximately $4,066 over the typical income of general architecture majors.
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).
Your choice of general architecture for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
