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2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$33,803 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,241 Avg Salary

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, architecture and related services was ranked #22 in the country. In fact 6,944 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for architecture and related services students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

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

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Architecture/Urban Planning

Our analysis found Illinois Institute of Technology to be the best value school for architecture and related services students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the Great Lakes Region . Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Illinois Tech are $30,822 per year.

Full Architecture & Related Services at Illinois Institute of Technology Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UWM is a very large public school located in the large city of Milwaukee.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UWM are $25,651 per year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value architecture and related services schools in the Great Lakes Region . UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

UIUC graduate students pay an average of $30,862 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UIUC also did well on our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Architecture & Related Services at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report

Out of the 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Cincinnati, UC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UC are $26,644 per year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value architecture and related services schools in the Great Lakes Region . U-M is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at U-M are $50,464 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, U-M also did well on our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Architecture & Related Services at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Report

Ohio State University - Main Campus came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Ohio State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Columbus.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Ohio State are $38,377 per year.

Full Architecture & Related Services at Ohio State University - Main Campus Report

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State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 189
Indiana 61
Ohio 194
Wisconsin 63
Michigan 253

Major Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology 3,366
Urban & Regional Planning 1,613
General Architecture 1,096
Landscape Architecture 285
Real Estate Development 223
Interior Architecture 169
Environmental Design 114
Architectural History 45
Architecture (Other) 33

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Physical Sciences 12,705

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 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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