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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 724 people earned their degree in environmental design and architecture, making the major the 500th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 149 environmental design and architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 108 environmental design and architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in environmental design and architecture. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental design and architecture programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the environmental design and architecture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design & Architecture in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$12,838 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s environmental design students in 2019-2020.

UH also took the #2 spot in our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UH is $12,838 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Design students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Environmental Design & Architecture at University of Houston

#2

Arizona State University - Tempe

Tempe, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$11,706 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 83 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s environmental design students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental design students list, ASU - Tempe has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Arizona State University - Tempe is $11,706 for southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental design students.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Environmental Design & Architecture at Arizona State University - Tempe

#3

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#3 in overall quality

$14,446 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. UNM is a large public school situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It awarded 20 bachelors’s environmental design degrees in 2019-2020.

UNM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Environmental Design & Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UNM is $14,446 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Design students.

Full University of New Mexico - Main Campus Environmental Design & Architecture 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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