2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering in the Plains States 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 Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Architectural Engineering is the 433rd most popular major in the country with 938 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 197 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 47 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in architectural engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent architectural engineering programs, but they also cost less that 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 architectural engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree architectural engineering students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$19,513 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region list. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is a large school located in Lincoln, Nebraska that handed out 35 masters’s architectural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UNL also took the #1 spot in our “Best Architectural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNL are $19,513, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Architectural Engineering at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

#2

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$24,115 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, this large public school awarded 10 diplomas to qualified masters’s architectural engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at K -State, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Architectural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Kansas State University are $24,115, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full K -State Architectural Engineering Report

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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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