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2022 Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
260 Degrees Awarded
$37,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology is the 155th most popular major in the country with 5,851 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 647 architectural and building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 260 architectural and building sciences/technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in architectural and building sciences/technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent architectural and building sciences/technology 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 architectural and building sciences/technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology (Income $75-$110k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a public institution located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 120 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Virginia Tech is $23,808 for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students whose families make $75-$110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at Virginia Tech

#2

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulane University of Louisiana. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tulane, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $34,240 for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Tulane.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Tulane University of Louisiana Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Report

#3

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Miami landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Coral Gables, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 43 degrees to qualified bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology students in 2019-2020.

U Miami did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend U Miami is $44,741 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology students whose families make $75-$110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at U Miami

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Savannah College of Art and Design. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. This fairly large school is located in Savannah, Georgia, and it awarded 66 bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students whose families make $75-$110k list, SCAD has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Savannah College of Art and Design is $45,370 for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology at SCAD

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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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