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2023 Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$40,066 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,727 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Architectural Engineering School for You

Architectural Engineering is the #237 most popular major in the country with 1,012 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for architectural engineering 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. 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.

2023 Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Architectural Engineering Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Architectural Engineering

$37,680 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Lawrence Technological University to be the best value school for architectural engineering students who want to pursue a degree in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the city of Southfield, Lawrence Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Lawrence Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $37,680 in tuition and fees each year.

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$27,111 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Architectural Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Cincinnati, UC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UC are $27,111 per year. While working on their degree, architectural engineering majors at UC accumulate an average of around $25,880 in student debt.

Read full report on Architectural Engineering at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Milwaukee School of Engineering is a great value for architectural engineering students. MSOE is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Milwaukee.

MSOE undergraduate students pay an average of $45,099 in tuition and fees each year. Architectural Engineering majors at MSOE take out an average of $27,000 in student loans while working on their egree.

MSOE excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Architectural Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Full Architectural Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering Report

$50,375 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois Institute of Technology landed the # 4 spot on the list. Illinois Tech is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Illinois Tech are $50,375 per year.

Full Architectural Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology Report

Best Architectural Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best architectural engineering schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 10
Ohio 29
Illinois 28
Wisconsin 40

More Architectural Engineering Rankings in the Great Lakes Region

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

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 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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