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2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$8,160 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$52,613 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 301 degrees and certificates were awarded to architecture and related services students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #34 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to see which 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 Colleges.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Architecture/Urban Planning

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Charlotte the best value school in North Carolina for architecture and related services students. Located in the large city of Charlotte, UNC Charlotte is a public school with a very large student population.

UNC Charlotte undergraduate students pay an average of $7,188 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Architecture & Related Services majors at UNC Charlotte take out an average of $27,000 in student loans while working on their egree.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UNC Charlotte also did well on our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in North Carolina list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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The excellent programs at North Carolina State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best architecture and related services schools in North Carolina. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at NC State are $9,131 per year. The average amount in student loans that architecture and related services majors at NC State take out is $22,875.

NC State also made our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Schools in North Carolina list, coming in at #5.

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State Degrees Awarded
West Virginia 6
South Carolina 199
Florida 883
Virginia 406
Arkansas 49
Mississippi 128
Louisiana 299
Alabama 196
Kentucky 108
Georgia 386
Tennessee 127

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 2 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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