2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design & Architecture in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Environmental Design & Architecture is the 500th most popular major in the country with 724 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 73 environmental design and architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 63 environmental design and architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental design and architecture. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental design and architecture 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 environmental design and architecture program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design & Architecture in the Far Western US Region

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#2 in overall quality

$15,030 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region list. UH Manoa is a fairly large school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 30 bachelors’s environmental design degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa also took the #2 spot in our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa is $15,030 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Design students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UH Manoa Environmental Design & Architecture Report

#2

University of California - Berkeley

Berkeley, California

#1 in overall quality

$15,329 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region list. UC Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 23 bachelors’s environmental design degrees to qualified students.

UC Berkeley did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UC Berkeley is $15,329 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Design students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The low student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Design & Architecture at UC Berkeley

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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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