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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering in the Plains States Region

4 Ranked Colleges
146 Degrees Awarded
$17,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Architectural Engineering is the 234th most popular major in the country with 938 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Plains States region, there were 197 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,200 and $24,115 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 146 architectural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in architectural engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality architectural engineering 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 architectural engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering in the Plains States Region

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architectural engineering degrees to 62 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students list, K -State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for K -State is $18,285 for Plains States 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.

Read full report on Architectural Engineering at Kansas State University

#2

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Lawrence, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s architectural engineering degrees to 34 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students list, KU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $18,918 for plains states region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students per year to attend KU.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full KU Architectural Engineering Report

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school awarded 23 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s architectural engineering students in 2019-2020.

UNL also took the #4 spot in our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $17,208 for plains states region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students per year to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UNL Architectural Engineering Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized public school situated in Rolla, Missouri. It awarded 27 bachelors’s architectural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Missouri University of Science and Technology did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Architectural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Missouri University of Science and Technology is $14,262 for plains states region bachelor’s degree architectural engineering students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.

Read full report on Architectural Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

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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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