2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture in the Southeast Region
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Interior Architecture is the 259th most popular major in the country with 662 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, interior architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,244 and had an average of $24,467 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 170 interior architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,850 and $23,619 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 Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in interior architecture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent interior architecture programs, but they also 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 Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.
Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi State is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 21 bachelors’s interiors degrees in 2019-2020.
Mississippi State also took the #4 spot in our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $16,173 for southeast region bachelor’s degree interiors students per year to attend Mississippi State.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Louisiana Tech is a fairly large public school situated in Ruston, Louisiana. It awarded 3 bachelors’s interiors degrees in 2019-2020.
Louisiana Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $12,084 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Interiors students per year to attend Louisiana Tech University.
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 Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s interiors degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.
Auburn also made our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $24,104 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Interiors students per year to attend Auburn University.
The low student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Interiors 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. This large school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s interiors degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree interiors students list, UT Knoxville has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is $18,825 for southeast region bachelor’s degree interiors students.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the #5 spot on the list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a large public school situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It awarded 35 bachelors’s interiors degrees in 2019-2020.
Louisiana State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $15,465 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Interiors students per year to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Interiors Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in Lafayette, Louisiana, this fairly large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s interiors students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UL Lafayette, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UL Lafayette is $12,487 for southeast region bachelor’s degree interiors students.
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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%.
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- *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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