2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Architecture is the 111th most popular major in the country with 5,051 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,998 and had an average of $41,356 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 66 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,600 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general architecture programs that also have a lower cost than 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 general architecture program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee bachelor’s degree architecture students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture (Income $0-$30k) in Tennessee

#1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$10,224 Average Net Price

$46,380 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #1 spot on the list. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 53 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville also made our “Best General Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $10,224 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UT Knoxville.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about General Architecture at UT Knoxville

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture (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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