2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region

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 Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 938 people earned their degree in architectural engineering, making the major the 234th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, architectural engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,977 and had an average of $25,140 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 292 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,433 and $24,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in architectural engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality architectural engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 architectural engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree architectural engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$31,956 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$77,213 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Auburn University is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 28 masters’s architectural engineering degrees to qualified students.

Auburn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Architectural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Auburn University are $31,956, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Architectural Engineering at Auburn

#2

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida

$40,220 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Miami. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. University of Miami is a fairly large school located in Coral Gables, Florida that handed out 2 masters’s architectural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree architectural engineering students whose families make $30-$48k list, U Miami has also earned the #0 rank in our “Best Architectural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at U Miami are $40,220, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Miami Architectural Engineering Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering (Income $30-$48k)

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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