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2023 Best Value Environmental Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$25,524 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$35,502 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Environmental Design Bachelor's Degree School for You

Environmental Design is the #258 most popular major in the country with 741 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Environmental Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to see which bachelor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for environment design students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Check out the environment design bachelor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Environmental Design

#1

University of Houston

Houston, TX

Our 2023 rankings named University of Houston the best value school in the Southwest Region for environmental design students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the large city of Houston, UH is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UH are $21,891 a year.

UH excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list.

Full Environmental Design at University of Houston Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. ASU - Tempe is a very large public school located in the city of Tempe.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ASU - Tempe are $29,438 per year. The average amount in student loans that environment design majors at ASU - Tempe take out while working on their Bachelor's Degree is $23,299.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, ASU - Tempe also did well on our Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. UNM is a very large public school located in the large city of Albuquerque.

UNM undergraduate students pay an average of $25,243 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Environmental Design at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Best Environmental Design Colleges by State

Explore the best environmental design schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 39
Arizona 59
New Mexico 28

One of 8 majors within the area of study, environmental design has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Environment Design

Related Major Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology 6,781
General Architecture 4,982
Urban & Regional Planning 2,419
Landscape Architecture 905
Interior Architecture 728

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
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