2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Design (With Aid)

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

Architectural Design is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 12 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 architectural design graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Architectural Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in architectural design. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent architectural design 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 design program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Architectural Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Design (With Aid)

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 11 masters’s architectural design degrees in 2019-2020.

UK also made our “Best Architectural Design Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kentucky are $33,216.

Read more about Architectural Design at UK

#2

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts

$32,341 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 masters’s architectural design degrees in 2019-2020.

UMass Amherst also took the #0 spot in our “Best Architectural Design Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMass Amherst are $32,341, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Architectural Design at University of Massachusetts Amherst

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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