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2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

15 Colleges
$34,900 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$44,169 Avg Salary

Architecture & Related Services is the #29 most popular major in the country with 17,325 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 15 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which bachelor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for architecture and related services students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Architecture & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Southern Illinois University Carbondale the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for architecture and related services students working on their bachelor’s degree. SIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Carbondale.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at SIUC are $15,240 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Milwaukee, UWM is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UWM are $21,475 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. BGSU is a large public school located in the town of Bowling Green.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at BGSU are $21,050 per year.

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#4

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Notre Dame. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the suburb of Notre Dame, Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Notre Dame are $58,843 per year.

Notre Dame also took the #1 spot in our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

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#5

Ball State University

Muncie, IN

A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Ball State University is a great value for architecture and related services students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the city of Muncie, Ball State is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Ball State are $27,524 a year.

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With a ranking of #6, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus did quite well on this year’s best value schools for architecture and related services students working on their bachelor’s degree. UC is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Cincinnati.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UC are $27,111 per year.

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University of Illinois at Chicago did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for architecture and related services students to get a bachelor’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list. UIC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Chicago.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UIC are $30,370 per year.

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Kent State University at Kent landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value bachelor’s degree architecture and related services programs. Kent State is a very large public school located in the suburb of Kent.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Kent State are $19,876 a year.

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Miami University - Oxford did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for architecture and related services students to get a bachelor’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the town of Oxford, Miami University - Oxford is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Miami University - Oxford are $36,288 per year.

Miami University - Oxford also claimed a spot on our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for architecture and related services students to get a bachelor’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UIUC are $37,632 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UIUC also did well on our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Explore the best architecture and related services colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 258
Michigan 423
Ohio 663
Illinois 522
Wisconsin 183

Major Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology 6,781
General Architecture 4,982
Urban & Regional Planning 2,419
Landscape Architecture 905
Environmental Design 741
Interior Architecture 728
Real Estate Development 420
Architecture (Other) 202
Architectural History 147

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Engineering 198,468
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Engineering Technologies 85,188
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 15 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Lorenzo Cafaro.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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