2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Design

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Architectural Design Schools for a Master’s” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 12 architectural design students received their degree, making the major the most popular in the country.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 architectural design graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent architectural design 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 design program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Architectural Design Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree architectural design students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Design

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Architectural Design Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 11 masters’s architectural design degrees in 2019-2020.

UK not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Architectural Design Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UK are $33,216, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Architectural Design at University of Kentucky

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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