2022 Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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 Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 233 people earned their degree in architecture (other), making the major the 306th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, architecture (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,300 and had an average of $24,848 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 24 architecture (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $21,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 architecture (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality architecture (other) programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the architecture (other) program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture (Other) in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$15,016 Average Net Price

$35,060 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Architecture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architecture degrees to 24 students in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Architecture (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $15,016 for southwest region bachelor’s degree architecture students per year to attend University of Arizona.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Architecture (Other) at University of Arizona

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture (Other)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Lorenzo Cafaro.

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