2022 Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Architecture & Related Services is the 28th most popular major in the country with 17,480 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 North Carolina, there were 307 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,333 and $35,677 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 120 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in architecture and related services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality architecture and related services programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architecture & Related Services in North Carolina

#1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$30,248 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina. Located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this large public school handed out 37 degrees to qualified masters’s architecture and related services students in 2019-2020.

UNC Chapel Hill not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Architecture & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNC Chapel Hill are $30,248, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Architecture & Related Services at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

#2

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$28,999 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 45 diplomas to qualified masters’s architecture and related services students in 2019-2020.

NC State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Architecture & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at North Carolina State University are $28,999, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Lorenzo Cafaro.

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