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2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

6 Ranked Colleges
116 Degrees Awarded
$12,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Architecture (Other) is the 306th most popular major in the country with 233 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, architecture (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,300 and had an average of $24,848 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 116 architecture (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in architecture (other). Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent architecture (other) 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 architecture (other) program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture (Other) (Income $30-$48k)

#1

Louisiana Tech University

Ruston, Louisiana
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Ruston, Louisiana, this fairly large public school awarded 25 degrees to qualified bachelors’s architecture students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Louisiana Tech, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $9,834 for bachelor’s degree architecture students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Louisiana Tech.

Read more about Architecture (Other) at Louisiana Tech University

#2

Ball State University

Muncie, Indiana
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ball State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. Ball State University is a public institution located in Muncie, Indiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Ball State also took the #3 spot in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ball State is $10,487 for Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read full report on Architecture (Other) at Ball State

#3

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Arizona is $11,466 for Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Architecture (Other) at University of Arizona

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. UL Lafayette is a public institution located in Lafayette, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UL Lafayette, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UL Lafayette is $10,726 for bachelor’s degree architecture students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read full report on Architecture (Other) at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. The Colleges is a small school located in Geneva, New York that handed out 25 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree architecture students whose families make $30-$48k list, The Colleges has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Hobart and William Smith Colleges is $21,255 for bachelor’s degree architecture students whose families make $30-$48k.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low student loan default rate of 3.8% 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%.

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#6

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah
#6 in overall quality

University of Utah came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k ranking. University of Utah is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s architecture degrees to qualified students.

U of U also took the #6 spot in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,192 for bachelor’s degree architecture students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend U of U.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Architecture (Other) at U of U

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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