2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Rocky Mountains 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 Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Architecture is the 111th most popular major in the country with 5,051 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,998 and had an average of $41,356 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 48 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,080 and $33,566 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general architecture 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 general architecture 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 Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

#1 in overall quality

$14,132 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Idaho is located in Moscow, Idaho and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 28 bachelors’s architecture degrees to qualified students.

U of I did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Idaho is $14,132 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Architecture students.

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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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