Considering a degree in Architecture?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Architecture majors who live in North Carolina.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Architecture degrees for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of North Carolina.
Note: Net price is the actual cost of college paid after factoring in financial aid.The net prices displayed in these rankings are College Raptor's estimates.
“Typical” middle class family values used in the Net Price estimates on this page are:
| Rank | Institution | Typical Net Price | Sticker Price | % Savings | Undergraduates | Est. Median SAT | Acceptance Rate | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Coast Guard Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,063 | 1319 | 0.206 | |
| 1 | United States Naval Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,474 | 1305 | 0.0927 | |
| 3 | Princeton University | 4000 | 82600 | 0.9516 | 5,916 | 1528 | 0.0442 | |
| 4 | Yale University | 5500 | 92200 | 0.94 | 6,667 | 1507 | 0.0475 | |
| 5 | United States Merchant Marine Academy | 7500 | 8600 | 0.1278 | 962 | 1214 | 0.3424 | |
| 6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 8000 | 90000 | 0.9116 | 4,561 | 1542 | 0.0456 | |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8400 | 97100 | 0.914 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 8 | Carnegie Mellon University | 9000 | 90900 | 0.9006 | 7,728 | 1528 | 0.1107 | |
| 9 | Mount Holyoke College | 9500 | 89900 | 0.8946 | 2,135 | 1419 | 0.3841 | |
| 10 | Utah State University | 9700 | 26700 | 0.6361 | 26,629 | 1168 | 0.9212 | |
| 11 | Rice University | 9800 | 89100 | 0.8903 | 4,807 | 1528 | 0.0801 | |
| 12 | Wellesley College | 10000 | 91300 | 0.8906 | 2,366 | 1499 | 0.1479 | |
| 13 | Washington University in St Louis | 10700 | 102300 | 0.8957 | 8,153 | 1512 | 0.1192 | |
| 14 | University of Notre Dame | 10900 | 86200 | 0.874 | 8,950 | 1497 | 0.0938 | |
| 15 | California State University-Fresno | 11400 | 19600 | 0.4221 | 21,954 | 995 | 0.9526 | |
| 16 | Cornell University | 11500 | 93100 | 0.8767 | 16,138 | 1528 | 0.0838 | |
| 17 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11600 | 29100 | 0.6019 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 18 | Florida Atlantic University | 12000 | 25800 | 0.5356 | 25,626 | 1150 | 0.5497 | |
| 18 | University of Houston | 12000 | 28400 | 0.5781 | 40,366 | 1224 | 0.7577 | |
| 18 | University of Pennsylvania | 12000 | 92900 | 0.8708 | 9,989 | 1535 | 0.0492 | |
| 21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 12400 | 29200 | 0.5745 | 39,193 | 1418 | 0.4081 | |
| 22 | University of Delaware | 13500 | 34500 | 0.608 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 23 | Brown University | 13900 | 94000 | 0.8521 | 7,951 | 1500 | 0.0634 | |
| 24 | Middlebury College | 14000 | 89900 | 0.8443 | 2,640 | 1499 | 0.1277 | |
| 25 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | 14300 | 19400 | 0.2642 | 14,865 | 1175 | 0.9113 | |
| 26 | University of Maine at Augusta | 15300 | 30600 | 0.5003 | 4,313 | 0 | 0 | |
| 27 | Lehigh University | 15500 | 89600 | 0.8275 | 5,986 | 1436 | 0.2896 | |
| 28 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 15700 | 29300 | 0.4642 | 8,421 | 1054 | 0.9444 | |
| 29 | University of Kansas | 16100 | 34900 | 0.5388 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 30 | California State University-Sacramento | 16300 | 27600 | 0.4097 | 28,619 | 1015 | 0.9357 | |
| 31 | Georgia Southern University | 16700 | 20100 | 0.1687 | 25,595 | 1045 | 0.695 | |
| 32 | Western Carolina University | 16900 | 19400 | 0.1289 | 10,268 | 1140 | 0.7076 | |
| 33 | Bennington College | 17100 | 89500 | 0.8095 | 708 | 1402 | 0.3721 | |
| 34 | SUNY College of Technology at Alfred | 17200 | 29500 | 0.4168 | 3,758 | 0 | 0.7236 | |
| 35 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 17400 | 29900 | 0.4173 | 60,710 | 1278 | 0.5732 | |
| 36 | Keene State College | 17500 | 41400 | 0.5763 | 2,640 | 1064 | 0.8982 | |
| 37 | Barnard College | 17600 | 99700 | 0.8232 | 3,223 | 1499 | 0.1005 | |
| 37 | University of Memphis | 17600 | 26400 | 0.334 | 15,538 | 1080 | 0.7878 | |
| 39 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 18400 | 30600 | 0.3971 | 38,463 | 1324 | 0.7589 | |
| 40 | Connecticut College | 19200 | 95300 | 0.7982 | 1,953 | 1284 | 0.3923 | |
| 41 | University of New Orleans | 19300 | 27200 | 0.2904 | 5,419 | 1040 | 0.7431 | |
| 42 | SUNY College of Technology at Delhi | 19600 | 30400 | 0.3551 | 2,881 | 1040 | 0.89 | |
| 43 | Norwich University | 19700 | 73800 | 0.7328 | 2,626 | 1186 | 0.7444 | |
| 43 | Olivet Nazarene University | 19700 | 79300 | 0.7513 | 2,704 | 1104 | 0.5586 | |
| 43 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 19700 | 78600 | 0.7492 | 17,848 | 1470 | 0.1565 | |
| 46 | University of Southern California | 20200 | 75900 | 0.7342 | 20,768 | 1499 | 0.1119 | |
| 47 | Louisiana Tech University | 21400 | 26100 | 0.1802 | 11,071 | 1189 | 0.9073 | |
| 48 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 21500 | 35300 | 0.3906 | 5,986 | 1110 | 0.8916 | |
| 48 | Webb Institute | 21500 | 73700 | 0.7085 | 104 | 1465 | 0.2484 | |
| 50 | Tufts University | 21700 | 98900 | 0.7803 | 7,031 | 1497 | 0.1082 | |
| 51 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 21800 | 37300 | 0.4156 | 26,490 | 1183 | 0.8863 | |
| 51 | La Roche University | 21800 | 72600 | 0.7 | 1,972 | 990 | 0.6638 | |
| 53 | Mount Mary University | 22300 | 57200 | 0.6102 | 616 | 1069 | 0.831 | |
| 54 | University of Southern Mississippi | 23100 | 23100 | 0 | 10,371 | 1181 | 0.926 | |
| 55 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 23200 | 34500 | 0.3279 | 8,513 | 1160 | 0.9261 | |
| 55 | Drury University | 23200 | 52900 | 0.5613 | 1,453 | 1209 | 0.6575 | |
| 57 | Bowling Green State University-Main Campus | 23800 | 34400 | 0.3081 | 15,273 | 1115 | 0.8089 | |
| 58 | Judson University | 24100 | 49100 | 0.5087 | 697 | 1010 | 0.8905 | |
| 59 | Indiana State University | 24300 | 32400 | 0.2501 | 6,352 | 1015 | 0.9157 | |
| 60 | Miami University-Oxford | 24400 | 27500 | 0.1129 | 16,405 | 1284 | 0.74 | |
| 60 | University of Arizona | 24400 | 38100 | 0.3597 | 43,294 | 1186 | 0.8351 | |
| 62 | Temple University | 25000 | 36100 | 0.3077 | 21,031 | 1172 | 0.8622 | |
| 63 | Kent State University at Kent | 25200 | 28400 | 0.1157 | 21,144 | 1104 | 0.7603 | |
| 64 | Marywood University | 25300 | 67700 | 0.6261 | 1,936 | 1144 | 0.7878 | |
| 64 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 25300 | 32800 | 0.2286 | 19,787 | 1197 | 0.8807 | |
| 66 | South Dakota State University | 25400 | 28700 | 0.1146 | 10,883 | 1115 | 0.9618 | |
| 67 | Stony Brook University | 26100 | 33200 | 0.2129 | 18,616 | 1410 | 0.4818 | |
| 68 | Ball State University | 26400 | 26400 | 0 | 15,950 | 1185 | 0.8625 | |
| 69 | University of Arkansas | 26600 | 28900 | 0.0793 | 29,252 | 1179 | 0.7388 | |
| 70 | University of Idaho | 26700 | 45200 | 0.4089 | 9,656 | 1104 | 0.7476 | |
| 71 | University of Nevada-Las Vegas | 26800 | 36600 | 0.2676 | 27,963 | 1090 | 0.8395 | |
| 72 | University of North Alabama | 27400 | 37300 | 0.2655 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 73 | University of New Mexico-Main Campus | 27500 | 43800 | 0.3725 | 18,028 | 1059 | 0.7996 | |
| 74 | Hobart William Smith Colleges | 27600 | 88300 | 0.6873 | 1,862 | 1296 | 0.667 | |
| 75 | North Dakota State University | 27700 | 30400 | 0.0886 | 9,762 | 1110 | 0.9496 | |
| 76 | Syracuse University | 27900 | 83100 | 0.6641 | 16,149 | 1374 | 0.4879 | |
| 77 | Iowa State University | 28600 | 43300 | 0.34 | 26,346 | 1212 | 0.8793 | |
| 78 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 29100 | 29200 | 0.0034 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 79 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 29900 | 42200 | 0.2913 | 15,735 | 1069 | 0.8797 | |
| 80 | Ithaca College | 30800 | 72500 | 0.575 | 4,205 | 1328 | 0.7015 | |
| 81 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | 31000 | 43100 | 0.281 | 22,313 | 1341 | 0.2996 | |
| 82 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31200 | 48800 | 0.361 | 21,028 | 1450 | 0.1334 | |
| 83 | Kean University | 31300 | 39500 | 0.2077 | 11,932 | 1040 | 0.7811 | |
| 83 | Massachusetts Maritime Academy | 31300 | 40200 | 0.2216 | 1,511 | 1120 | 0.9202 | |
| 85 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona | 31600 | 41200 | 0.2333 | 25,312 | 1134 | 0.7395 | |
| 86 | North Carolina A & T State University | 31800 | 36700 | 0.1334 | 12,497 | 1075 | 0.5125 | |
| 86 | SUNY Maritime College | 31800 | 41600 | 0.2354 | 1,401 | 1164 | 0.785 | |
| 88 | Lawrence Technological University | 32300 | 71900 | 0.5507 | 2,661 | 1149 | 0.8101 | |
| 89 | Portland State University | 32400 | 43100 | 0.2479 | 14,932 | 1174 | 0.8586 | |
| 90 | Morgan State University | 32500 | 41900 | 0.2245 | 9,027 | 965 | 0.8223 | |
| 91 | The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga | 32600 | 34500 | 0.0551 | 10,396 | 1125 | 0.7162 | |
| 92 | North Carolina State University | 32700 | 54800 | 0.4033 | 29,340 | 1374 | 0.3954 | |
| 92 | Prairie View A & M University | 32700 | 39600 | 0.1742 | 9,022 | 960 | 0.7836 | |
| 92 | Samford University | 32700 | 64600 | 0.4939 | 4,210 | 1199 | 0.8236 | |
| 95 | Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design | 33600 | 57400 | 0.4147 | 838 | 1143 | 0.6054 | |
| 95 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | 33600 | 39800 | 0.1557 | 26,213 | 1209 | 0.7778 | |
| 97 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus | 34000 | 41000 | 0.1705 | 23,003 | 1164 | 0.7367 | |
| 97 | Thomas Jefferson University | 34000 | 68100 | 0.5008 | 3,772 | 1255 | 0.8098 | |
| 99 | University of Rhode Island | 34400 | 46400 | 0.2584 | 14,466 | 1197 | 0.7456 | |
| 100 | Chatham University | 34900 | 63300 | 0.449 | 1,555 | 1197 | 0.6196 | |
| 101 | Drexel University | 35600 | 83900 | 0.5758 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 102 | Texas Tech University | 35700 | 38900 | 0.0823 | 34,021 | 1195 | 0.6906 | |
| 103 | Delaware Valley University | 36100 | 66900 | 0.4605 | 1,680 | 1189 | 0.9268 | |
| 104 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 36300 | 53100 | 0.3162 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 105 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 36600 | 40000 | 0.085 | 1,984 | 1239 | 0.6328 | |
| 106 | University of Connecticut | 37100 | 53600 | 0.3081 | 20,056 | 1329 | 0.5239 | |
| 107 | Andrews University | 37200 | 70100 | 0.4694 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 108 | Benedictine College | 37600 | 50800 | 0.2599 | 2,404 | 1241 | 0.9812 | |
| 108 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 37600 | 66300 | 0.433 | 31,536 | 1366 | 0.5457 | |
| 110 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 37800 | 40100 | 0.0571 | 25,054 | 1225 | 0.7762 | |
| 111 | Maine Maritime Academy | 38400 | 49800 | 0.2287 | 977 | 1189 | 0.9615 | |
| 112 | Mississippi State University | 39100 | 53400 | 0.2675 | 19,093 | 1205 | 0.8363 | |
| 113 | University of San Francisco | 39300 | 84800 | 0.5364 | 5,171 | 1333 | 0.7176 | |
| 114 | University of Central Florida | 39700 | 39700 | 0 | 60,083 | 1289 | 0.428 | |
| 115 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 39800 | 50000 | 0.2042 | 35,248 | 1289 | 0.6939 | |
| 116 | University of Illinois Chicago | 40300 | 50600 | 0.2036 | 24,260 | 1174 | 0.7576 | |
| 116 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 40300 | 44100 | 0.0862 | 13,432 | 1225 | 0.8701 | |
| 118 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5061 | 33,534 | 1399 | 0.0941 | |
| 119 | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 40800 | 47500 | 0.1411 | 31,127 | 1115 | 0.8679 | |
| 120 | Concordia University-Wisconsin | 41200 | 57000 | 0.2774 | 2,401 | 1209 | 0.7819 | |
| 121 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 41800 | 55200 | 0.2427 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 122 | Anderson University | 42200 | 53600 | 0.2127 | 3,724 | 1209 | 0.5491 | |
| 123 | University of Florida | 43100 | 45700 | 0.057 | 37,283 | 1406 | 0.2033 | |
| 123 | University of Maryland-College Park | 43100 | 53600 | 0.196 | 31,875 | 1456 | 0.4503 | |
| 125 | University at Buffalo | 43300 | 46700 | 0.0728 | 21,192 | 1309 | 0.8059 | |
| 126 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 46200 | 86300 | 0.4644 | 5,833 | 1440 | 0.6725 | |
| 127 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 47100 | 59700 | 0.2124 | 37,985 | 1390 | 0.5815 | |
| 128 | University of Colorado Boulder | 47300 | 57700 | 0.1806 | 32,244 | 1351 | 0.7809 | |
| 129 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 48000 | 55800 | 0.1398 | 32,545 | 1129 | 0.799 | |
| 130 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48300 | 91400 | 0.4717 | 6,839 | 1469 | 0.1446 | |
| 131 | Purdue University-Main Campus | 48500 | 51200 | 0.0544 | 43,633 | 1342 | 0.4343 | |
| 132 | University of Kentucky | 49000 | 58000 | 0.1555 | 25,535 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 133 | The University of Texas at Austin | 49600 | 59400 | 0.165 | 44,314 | 1356 | 0.2222 | |
| 134 | University of Georgia | 49700 | 51600 | 0.0368 | 32,824 | 1348 | 0.3425 | |
| 135 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 49800 | 62200 | 0.1995 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 136 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 50800 | 84700 | 0.4003 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 137 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | 53300 | 53300 | 0 | 34,447 | 1273 | 0.8804 | |
| 138 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 53600 | 62800 | 0.1465 | 24,019 | 1404 | 0.5989 | |
| 139 | Howard University | 55100 | 66500 | 0.1715 | 11,519 | 1208 | 0.4134 | |
| 140 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 55900 | 63800 | 0.1237 | 42,565 | 1339 | 0.7887 | |
| 141 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 58200 | 64100 | 0.092 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 142 | Maryland Institute College of Art | 58400 | 71200 | 0.1798 | 1,192 | 1232 | 0.7681 | |
| 143 | Auburn University | 58500 | 58500 | 0 | 27,907 | 1324 | 0.4593 | |
| 144 | Clemson University | 61400 | 63700 | 0.036 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 145 | Otis College of Art and Design | 66500 | 79800 | 0.1666 | 1,188 | 1335 | 0.8034 | |
| 146 | University of California-Davis | 68300 | 69800 | 0.0215 | 31,695 | 1290 | 0.4435 | |
| 147 | University of Oregon | 69000 | 71300 | 0.0321 | 20,710 | 1193 | 0.8742 | |
| 148 | University of California-Berkeley | 70900 | 76100 | 0.0684 | 33,513 | 1407 | 0.1145 | |
| 149 | The Catholic University of America | 82500 | 82500 | 0 | 3,294 | 1229 | 0.7328 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.
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