2022 Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 728 people earned their degree in environmental design, making the major the 255th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, environmental design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,900 and had an average of $23,950 in loans still to pay off.

Across Massachusetts, there were 28 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,767 and $32,505 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,887 and $24,387 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental design programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the environmental design program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design (Income $0-$30k) in Massachusetts

#1

Boston Architectural College

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$25,124 Average Net Price

$48,823 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston Architectural College landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s environment design degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Boston Architectural College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Boston Architectural College is $25,124 for Massachusetts Bachelor’s Degree Environment Design students whose families make $0-$30k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Environmental Design at Boston Architectural College

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design (Income $0-$30k)

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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