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2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in Louisiana

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$23,296 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,940 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 299 degrees and certificates were awarded to architecture and related services students who went to a Louisiana college or university. This makes it the #25 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in Louisiana ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Louisiana to see which ones offered the best value programs for architecture and related services students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. 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.

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

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

Best Louisiana Schools for Affordable Quality in Architecture/Urban Planning

$10,065 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Louisiana Tech University the best value school in Louisiana for architecture and related services students. Louisiana Tech is a large public school located in the distant town of Ruston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Louisiana Tech are $10,065 a year. Architecture & Related Services majors at Louisiana Tech take out an average of $24,050 in student loans while working on their egree.

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$11,958 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best architecture and related services schools in Louisiana. Louisiana State University is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Baton Rouge.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Louisiana State University are $11,958 per year. After completing their degree, architecture and related services graduates from Louisiana State University carry an average student debtload of $19,250.

Louisiana State University also took the #2 spot in our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in Louisiana rankings.

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$10,346 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisiana at Lafayette landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the midsize city of Lafayette, UL Lafayette is a public school with a fairly large student population.

UL Lafayette undergraduate students pay an average of $10,346 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that architecture and related services majors at UL Lafayette take out is $30,946.

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$60,814 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in Louisiana list. Located in the city of New Orleans, Tulane is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Tulane are $60,814 a year.

Tulane did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in Louisiana list.

Read full report on Architecture & Related Services at Tulane University of Louisiana

Explore all the Best Value Architecture & Related Services Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
North Carolina 301
West Virginia 6
Florida 883
Virginia 406
Arkansas 49
Mississippi 128
South Carolina 199
Tennessee 127
Alabama 196
Kentucky 108
Georgia 386

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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