2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture in the Far Western US Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Interiors Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Far Western US region, there were 65 interior architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,650 and $19,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 interior architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Interiors Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in interior architecture. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality interior architecture programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the interior architecture program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Interiors Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Interiors Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree interiors students.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture in the Far Western US Region

#1

California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

Pomona, California

#3 in overall quality

$18,377 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$48,823 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California State Polytechnic University - Pomona. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Interiors Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region. California State Polytechnic University - Pomona is a large school located in Pomona, California that handed out 12 masters’s interiors degrees in 2019-2020.

Cal Poly Pomona not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Interior Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Cal Poly Pomona are $18,377.

Read full report on Interior Architecture at California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

#2

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$29,991 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,856 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Interiors Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #2 spot on the list. Eugene, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s interiors degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

UO did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Interior Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Oregon are $29,991, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Interior Architecture at UO

#3

Woodbury University

Burbank, California

#2 in overall quality

$41,670 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Woodbury University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Interiors Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region. Located in Burbank, California, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s interiors students in 2019-2020.

Woodbury not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Interior Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Woodbury are $41,670, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Interior Architecture at Woodbury

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Interior Architecture

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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