Virginia Beach, VA (population: 439,564) has two architecture schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Hampton University, the highest ranked school in this group with an architecture program, has a total student population of 5,402. It is the 3311th highest ranked school in the USA and one of the highest in the state . To learn more about architecture programs in Virginia Beach, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of architecture professors at Hampton University such as Shannon Chance, Ron Kloster, David Peronnet, and Sarah Robertson.
Architecture students from Virginia Beach schools who go on to become architects, architecture designers, landscape architects, interior architects, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 2,412,730 people working as architecture and engineering employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $73,590. Also, Landscape architects make on average $65,910 per year and there are about 18,940 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area alone, there are 110 employed landscape architects earning an average salary of $61,240. Architecture and engineering employees in this area earn $69,930/yr and there are 21,860 employed.
Virginia Beach lies in Virginia Beach county, which is one of the 61 counties in Virginia. Overall, the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area has 735,390 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $19.28/hr average worker wage, and a $40,100 average annual salary. Thus, about 29.723 out of every 1000 jobs in Virginia Beach are held by architecture and engineering employees, and 0.145/1000 are held by landscape architects.
Of the 2 architecture schools with a 100-mile radius of Virginia Beach, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Hampton University comes out as the most expensive ($18,524/yr) for architecture students, with John Tyler Community College as the lowest, reported at only $4,710/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Virginia Beach |
| Chesapeake | VA | 223,315 | 5 | 26.9533 | 56 | 15.5 miles |
| Norfolk | VA | 234,477 | 11 | 21.2525 | 420 | 16.7 miles |
| Portsmouth | VA | 102,540 | 2 | 19.0088 | 64 | 19.6 miles |
| Hampton | VA | 147,560 | 2 | 15.4443 | 49 | 25.5 miles |
| Suffolk | VA | 84,501 | 2 | 10.9214 | 2 | 33.4 miles |
| Newport News | VA | 182,057 | 4 | 29.3064 | 58 | 35.1 miles |
| Petersburg | VA | - | 3 | 33.8633 | 70 | 82.5 miles |
| Weldon | NC | - | 1 | 13.6824 | 51 | 89.1 miles |
| Highland Springs | VA | - | 1 | 3.25189 | 0 | 90.3 miles |
| Richmond | VA | 198,179 | 22 | 25.9212 | 685 | 95.9 miles |