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2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$24,713 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$44,169 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 522 degrees and certificates were awarded to architecture and related services students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #29 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

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 Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for architecture and related services students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for architecture and related services majors pursuing a bachelor's degree.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Architecture/Urban Planning

Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the best value school in Illinois for architecture and related services students working on their bachelor’s degree. UIUC is a very large public school located in the city of Champaign.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UIUC are $17,634 a year.

UIUC also made our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #3.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Illinois at Chicago is a great value for architecture and related services students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the large city of Chicago, UIC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UIC are $15,603 per year.

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Out of the 4 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SIUC are $15,240 per year.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Illinois Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value architecture and related services schools in Illinois. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

Illinois Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $50,375 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 258
Michigan 423
Ohio 663
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 4 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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