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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture in the Southeast Region

6 Ranked Colleges
140 Degrees Awarded
$16,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 662 people earned their degree in interior architecture, making the major the 515th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 170 interior architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 140 interior architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in interior architecture. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great interior 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 interior 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 Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

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

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture in the Southeast Region

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi State University is a public institution located in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Mississippi State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Mississippi State is $16,173 for southeast region bachelor’s degree interior architecture students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

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#2

Louisiana Tech University

Ruston, Louisiana
#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Louisiana Tech University is a public institution located in Ruston, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree interior architecture students list, Louisiana Tech has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Louisiana Tech University is $12,084 for southeast region bachelor’s degree interior architecture students.

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#3

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Auburn University is a large school located in Auburn, Alabama that handed out 19 bachelors’s interior architecture degrees in 2019-2020.

Auburn not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Auburn University is $24,104 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Interior Architecture students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Interior Architecture at Auburn University

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #4 spot on the list. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a public institution located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The school has a large population, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is $18,825 for southeast region bachelor’s degree interior architecture students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a large public school situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It awarded 35 bachelors’s interior architecture degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Louisiana State University, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $15,465 for southeast region bachelor’s degree interior architecture students per year to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Interior Architecture at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

#5 in overall quality

University of Louisiana at Lafayette did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Interior Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #6. UL Lafayette is located in Lafayette, Louisiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s interior architecture degrees to qualified students.

UL Lafayette also took the #5 spot in our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UL Lafayette is $12,487 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Interior 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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