If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in architecture & related services, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #27 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 13 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for architecture & related services students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,445 bachelor'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 Bachelor's Degree
The architecture & related services bachelor'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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a bachelor'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 ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 - How many other architecture & related services students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
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 easy is it for architecture & related services to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized architecture & related services related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for architecture & related services students working on their bachelor'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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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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).
The architecture & related services bachelor'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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
