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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture & Related Services in Alabama

1 Ranked Colleges
131 Degrees Awarded
$24,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Bachelor's in Alabama

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 & Related Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 17,480 people earned their degree in architecture and related services, making the major the 28th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, architecture and related services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,294 and had an average of $39,729 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alabama, there were 187 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,550 and $44,180 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 131 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,191 and $26,651 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great architecture and related services programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the architecture and related services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama” list to help you make the college decision.

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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama.

#1

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Auburn is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 115 bachelors’s architecture and related services degrees to qualified students.

Auburn not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Architecture & Related Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list. The yearly cost to attend Auburn is $24,104 for Alabama Bachelor’s Degree Architecture & Related Services students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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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