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2023 Best Value General Architecture Schools in New York

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$43,925 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$51,814 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Architecture School for You

General Architecture is the #193 most popular major in New York with 22 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value General Architecture Schools in New York ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in New York to see which programs offered the best value experiences for architecture 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 General Architecture Schools in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Architecture Colleges.

Best New York Schools for Affordable Quality in General Architecture

#1

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY
$10,782 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University at Buffalo the best value school in New York for general architecture students. Located in the suburb of Buffalo, University at Buffalo is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at University at Buffalo are $10,782 a year.

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$62,466 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Columbia University in the City of New York. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Architecture Schools in New York list. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Columbia are $62,466 per year.

Columbia also took the #4 spot in our Best General Architecture Schools in New York rankings.

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$58,526 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best general architecture schools in New York. Located in the small city of Troy, RPI is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

RPI undergraduate students pay an average of $58,526 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, RPI also is in the top 10% of our Best General Architecture Schools in New York ranking.

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Best Value General Architecture Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value General Architecture Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 16
Maryland 0
New Jersey 14
District of Columbia 46

General Architecture is one of 8 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology 3,366
Urban & Regional Planning 1,613
Landscape Architecture 285
Real Estate Development 223
Interior Architecture 169

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Danichou.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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