2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in New Jersey

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 New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 5,051 people earned their degree in general architecture, making the major the 111th most popular in the United States. 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 New Jersey, there were 67 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,100 and $31,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,690 and $39,821 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general 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 general architecture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Architecture Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architecture Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Architecture in New Jersey

#1

Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$56,470 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$61,020 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Princeton University landed the #1 spot on the list. Princeton, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s architecture degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Princeton, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Princeton University are $56,470, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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