2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering in the Southeast Region
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In 2019-2020, 938 people earned their degree in architectural engineering, making the major the 234th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, architectural engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,977 and had an average of $25,140 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 292 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,433 and $24,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 197 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in architectural engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great architectural engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the architectural engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students.
Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Auburn, Alabama, and it awarded 145 bachelors’s architectural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.
Auburn also took the #1 spot in our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $24,104 for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students per year to attend Auburn University.
The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina A & T State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Greensboro, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architectural engineering degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.
NC A&T also made our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $10,274 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Architectural Engineering students per year to attend NC A&T.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tennessee State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Tennessee State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 7 bachelors’s architectural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tennessee State University, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Tennessee State University is $12,443 for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Alabama. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. The University of Alabama is a large school located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that handed out 15 bachelors’s architectural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.
UA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend The University of Alabama is $22,597 for southeast region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Miami. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Coral Gables, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s architectural engineering students in 2019-2020.
U Miami also took the #2 spot in our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for U Miami is $46,949 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Architectural Engineering students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
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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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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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