2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture (Other) (With Aid)
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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 Getting Aid” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the architecture (other) 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 For Those Getting Aid
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid.
Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture (Other) (With Aid)
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 Getting Aid list. Louisiana Tech is a fairly large public school situated in Ruston, Louisiana. It awarded 25 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2019-2020.
Louisiana Tech also took the #2 spot in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Louisiana Tech University is $12,084 for Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students with aid.
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisiana at Lafayette landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Lafayette, Louisiana, this fairly large public school handed out 28 degrees to qualified bachelors’s architecture students in 2019-2020.
UL Lafayette also made our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for University of Louisiana at Lafayette is $12,487 for bachelor’s degree architecture students with aid.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ball State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid 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 not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Ball State University is $15,147 for Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students with aid.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. This large school is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s architecture degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree architecture students with aid list, U of U has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for U of U is $14,773 for Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students with aid.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school handed out 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s architecture students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree architecture students with aid list, University of Arizona has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Arizona is $15,016 for bachelor’s degree architecture students with aid.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. Geneva, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree architecture students with aid list, The Colleges has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for The Colleges is $32,940 for Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students with aid.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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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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