2025 Best Architectural Drafting & Architectural CAD/CADD Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
61Associate Degrees
an associate degree in architectural drafting & architectural cad/cadd is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #167 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of architectural drafting & architectural cad/cadd. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 61 associate degrees in architectural drafting & architectural cad/cadd during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 architectural drafting & architectural cad/cadd students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of architectural drafting & architectural cad/cadd students who choose to seek a associate 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized architectural drafting & architectural cad/cadd related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for architectural drafting & architectural cad/cadd students working on their associate 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 Architectural Drafting & Architectural CAD/CADD Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college 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).