2022 Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
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 Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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” 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.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the architectural and building sciences/technology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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
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.
Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, and it awarded 120 bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Virginia Tech, the school also landed 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 $21,198 for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
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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 #2 for the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Savannah, Georgia 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 66 students in 2019-2020.
SCAD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for SCAD is $43,641 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology students.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Miami landed the #3 spot on the list. U Miami is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Coral Gables, Florida. It awarded 43 bachelors’s architectural and building sciences/technology degrees in 2019-2020.
U Miami not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #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 $46,949 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology students.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 22 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 list, Tulane has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Tulane is $37,841 for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural and building sciences/technology students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Tulane Architectural & Building Sciences/Technology Report
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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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