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2022 Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology is the 155th most popular major in the country with 5,851 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 684 architectural and building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 267 architectural and building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in architectural and building sciences/technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent architectural and building sciences/technology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the architectural and building sciences/technology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 91 bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is $13,351 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students whose families make $48-$75k.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. This medium-sized school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 62 bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2019-2020.

Illinois Tech not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Illinois Institute of Technology is $22,542 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#3

University of Detroit Mercy

Detroit, Michigan
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Detroit Mercy. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Detroit Mercy is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Detroit, Michigan. It awarded 26 bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2019-2020.

Detroit Mercy also made our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for Detroit Mercy is $17,242 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Miami University - Oxford. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Oxford, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees to 29 students in 2019-2020.

Miami University - Oxford not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $23,232 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Miami University - Oxford.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#5

Andrews University

Berrien Springs, Michigan
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Andrews University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology students in 2019-2020.

Andrews not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Andrews is $20,399 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology students whose families make $48-$75k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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