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2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid

2 Ranked Colleges
87 Degrees Awarded
$24,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor's in Indiana For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Indiana For Those Getting Aid” 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 Indiana, there were 120 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,367 and $27,667 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 87 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,620 and $24,786 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general architecture. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general architecture programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general architecture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in Indiana (With Aid)

#1

Ball State University

Muncie, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid. Muncie, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 51 students in 2019-2020.

Ball State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list. It costs about $15,147 for indiana bachelor’s degree architecture students with aid per year to attend Ball State.

Read more about General Architecture at Ball State University

#2

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Notre Dame landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Notre Dame, Indiana, and it awarded 36 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2019-2020.

Notre Dame also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Notre Dame is $33,025 for indiana bachelor’s degree architecture students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Full University of Notre Dame General 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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