2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture & Related Services in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Architecture & Related Services is the 28th most popular major in the country with 17,480 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, architecture and related services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,294 and had an average of $39,729 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 757 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,308 and $41,720 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 architecture and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in architecture and related services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent architecture and related services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the architecture and related services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture & Related Services in Pennsylvania

#1

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$41,760 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 doctorate’s architecture and related services degrees to qualified students.

UPenn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Architecture & Related Services Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UPenn are $41,760, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UPenn Architecture & Related Services Report

#2

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$47,326 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s architecture and related services degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Carnegie Mellon also made our “Best Architecture & Related Services Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Carnegie Mellon University are $47,326, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Architecture & Related Services at Carnegie Mellon

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture & Related Services in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Architecture & Related Services

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

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