2022 Best Value architecture Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia

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 architecture Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Architecture is the 124th most popular major in the country with 4,967 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across District of Columbia, there were 98 architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,525 and $61,455 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality architecture programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the 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 architecture Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value architecture Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architecture in District of Columbia

#1

Catholic University of America

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$50,340 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value architecture Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #1 spot on the list. Catholic University of America is a medium-sized school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 19 masters’s architecture degrees in 2019-2020.

CUA also took the #1 spot in our “Best Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at CUA are $50,340, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Architecture at Catholic University of America

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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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