2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in District of Columbia (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 District of Columbia, there were 98 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,100 and $32,893 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 69 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general architecture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general architecture programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid

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

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

#1

Howard University

Washington, District of Columbia

#2 in overall quality

$41,289 Average Net Price

$56,716 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid. This fairly large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2019-2020.

Howard not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. It costs about $41,289 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students with aid per year to attend Howard.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Howard University General Architecture Report

#2

Catholic University of America

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$34,230 Average Net Price

$47,595 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 46 students in 2019-2020.

CUA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. It costs about $34,230 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree architecture students with aid per year to attend Catholic University of America.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Architecture at CUA

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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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