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2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
44 Degrees Awarded
$25,000 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master's For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Environmental Design & Architecture is the 500th most popular major in the country with 724 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 environmental design and architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in environmental design and architecture. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental design and architecture programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the environmental design and architecture program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design & Architecture (With Aid)

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #1 spot on the list. The University of Texas at Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 13 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Austin also made our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Texas at Austin are $22,886.

Read more about Environmental Design & Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Florida - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. USF Tampa is a public institution located in Tampa, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our master’s degree environmental design students with aid list, USF Tampa has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at USF Tampa are $21,126, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Environmental Design & Architecture at University of South Florida - Main Campus

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s environmental design degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Iowa State also made our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State are $25,948, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Iowa State University Environmental Design & Architecture Report

#4

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 2 masters’s environmental design degrees in 2019-2020.

Cornell also took the #0 spot in our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Cornell University are $30,042.

Full Cornell Environmental Design & Architecture Report

#5

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. Clemson is a large school located in Clemson, South Carolina that handed out 8 masters’s environmental design degrees in 2019-2020.

Clemson not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Clemson University are $23,246.

Full Clemson University Environmental Design & Architecture Report

#6

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

Northeastern University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s environmental design students in 2019-2020.

Northeastern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Northeastern University are $25,558.

Full Northeastern Environmental Design & Architecture Report

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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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