Architecture & Related Services isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #21 in popularity out of 37 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of architecture & related services. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 221 master's degrees in architecture & related services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Architecture & Related Services School for Your Master's Degree
The architecture & related services master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality architecture & related services program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master'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
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to architecture & related services students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of architecture & related services students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt architecture & related services students go into to obtain their master'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 architecture & related services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for architecture & related services students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Architecture & Related Services Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Architecture & Related Services Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The architecture & related services master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality architecture & related services program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
