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2023 Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$10,195 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$69,509 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Architectural Engineering School for You

Architectural Engineering is the #249 most popular major in California with 50 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. 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 Architectural Engineering Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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 following school tops our list of the Best Value Architectural Engineering Colleges.

Best Architectural Engineering School

$10,195 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo the best value school in California for architectural engineering students. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of San Luis Obispo.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo are $10,195 a year. While working on their degree, architectural engineering majors at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo accumulate an average of around $24,876 in student debt. This translates to an average monthly loan payment of $481, based on a 10-year repayment plan.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo also claimed a spot on our Best Architectural Engineering Schools in California list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.

Full Architectural Engineering at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo Report

Best Value Architectural Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Oregon 6

One of 40 majors within the area of study, architectural engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Architectural Engineering

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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