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Considering a degree in Architecture?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Architecture majors who live in District of Columbia.
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 District of Columbia.
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 | 1,108 | 1334 | 0.2244 | |
| 1 | United States Naval Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,474 | 1305 | 0.0927 | |
| 3 | Princeton University | 3700 | 82600 | 0.9552 | 5,813 | 1535 | 0.0462 | |
| 4 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 4800 | 40700 | 0.8811 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 5 | Yale University | 5500 | 92200 | 0.94 | 6,814 | 1507 | 0.0387 | |
| 6 | United States Merchant Marine Academy | 7300 | 8600 | 0.1511 | 962 | 1214 | 0.3424 | |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8300 | 97100 | 0.915 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0399 | |
| 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 8400 | 90000 | 0.9071 | 4,535 | 1542 | 0.0455 | |
| 9 | Carnegie Mellon University | 9000 | 90900 | 0.9007 | 7,377 | 1528 | 0.1166 | |
| 10 | Wellesley College | 9200 | 91300 | 0.8994 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 11 | Washington University in St Louis | 9300 | 102300 | 0.9091 | 8,220 | 1513 | 0.1206 | |
| 12 | University of Pennsylvania | 9400 | 92900 | 0.8988 | 11,478 | 1536 | 0.054 | |
| 13 | Rice University | 9800 | 89100 | 0.8903 | 4,789 | 1535 | 0.08 | |
| 14 | University of Notre Dame | 10600 | 86200 | 0.8775 | 8,880 | 1500 | 0.1127 | |
| 15 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11300 | 29100 | 0.6122 | 40,684 | 1331 | 0.3915 | |
| 16 | Florida Atlantic University | 11600 | 25800 | 0.5511 | 24,876 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 17 | California State University-Sacramento | 11700 | 30700 | 0.6186 | 28,820 | 1035 | 0.9399 | |
| 17 | Cornell University | 11700 | 93100 | 0.8745 | 16,128 | 1521 | 0.0876 | |
| 19 | University of Central Florida | 11900 | 25300 | 0.529 | 59,552 | 1280 | 0.4011 | |
| 20 | University of Houston | 12000 | 28400 | 0.5781 | 39,257 | 1249 | 0.7392 | |
| 21 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 12100 | 38800 | 0.6887 | 17,885 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 22 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 12400 | 28000 | 0.5568 | 8,553 | 1045 | 0.8688 | |
| 23 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona | 12600 | 12600 | 0 | 25,255 | 1134 | 0.7517 | |
| 24 | North Carolina A & T State University | 12700 | 17900 | 0.2913 | 12,497 | 1075 | 0.499 | |
| 25 | Mount Holyoke College | 13200 | 89900 | 0.8534 | 2,178 | 1449 | 0.3603 | |
| 26 | Middlebury College | 13700 | 89900 | 0.8477 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 26 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13700 | 50700 | 0.7294 | 38,040 | 1418 | 0.452 | |
| 28 | Utah State University | 13800 | 20800 | 0.3369 | 25,706 | 1176 | 0.9247 | |
| 29 | Brown University | 13900 | 94000 | 0.8521 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 30 | University of the District of Columbia | 14300 | 26900 | 0.469 | 3,610 | 0 | 0 | |
| 31 | Northeastern University | 14800 | 89900 | 0.8354 | 17,432 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 32 | Lehigh University | 15600 | 89600 | 0.8263 | 5,911 | 1436 | 0.2593 | |
| 33 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | 15800 | 22300 | 0.2912 | 24,868 | 1214 | 0.796 | |
| 34 | University of California-Los Angeles | 16300 | 36700 | 0.5554 | 33,475 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 35 | The University of Texas at Austin | 16600 | 28000 | 0.4076 | 43,165 | 1356 | 0.2664 | |
| 36 | Connecticut College | 16700 | 95300 | 0.8244 | 1,990 | 1421 | 0.3704 | |
| 36 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 16700 | 26300 | 0.3635 | 19,701 | 1214 | 0.8749 | |
| 38 | Bennington College | 17200 | 89500 | 0.8079 | 797 | 1370 | 0.4453 | |
| 39 | Keene State College | 17500 | 32100 | 0.4539 | 2,725 | 1085 | 0.9033 | |
| 39 | Morgan State University | 17500 | 28500 | 0.3858 | 9,027 | 965 | 0.8223 | |
| 39 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 17500 | 29900 | 0.4159 | 60,710 | 1278 | 0.5743 | |
| 42 | Barnard College | 17600 | 99700 | 0.8232 | 3,487 | 1499 | 0.0884 | |
| 42 | Prairie View A & M University | 17600 | 25400 | 0.3071 | 8,877 | 975 | 0.7931 | |
| 44 | SUNY College of Technology at Alfred | 17700 | 38700 | 0.5421 | 3,781 | 1100 | 0.7568 | |
| 45 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 17900 | 44300 | 0.5956 | 20,591 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 45 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 17900 | 39000 | 0.5422 | 37,985 | 1390 | 0.5815 | |
| 47 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 18200 | 18200 | 0 | 34,242 | 1273 | 0.7333 | |
| 48 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 18400 | 30600 | 0.3971 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 49 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 18800 | 31000 | 0.394 | 13,432 | 1225 | 0.8701 | |
| 50 | University of New Orleans | 19100 | 27200 | 0.2978 | 5,419 | 1040 | 0.7431 | |
| 51 | Norwich University | 19400 | 73800 | 0.7369 | 2,626 | 1186 | 0.7444 | |
| 52 | University of Colorado Boulder | 19600 | 31900 | 0.385 | 32,244 | 1351 | 0.7808 | |
| 53 | University of Southern California | 19800 | 75900 | 0.7395 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 54 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 20200 | 29300 | 0.3101 | 2,381 | 1239 | 0.6328 | |
| 55 | Hampshire College | 20700 | 83900 | 0.7536 | 844 | 1254 | 0.7528 | |
| 55 | Purdue University-Main Campus | 20700 | 30600 | 0.326 | 44,819 | 1327 | 0.4987 | |
| 57 | University of Memphis | 20800 | 29600 | 0.2976 | 15,770 | 1075 | 0.7203 | |
| 58 | Louisiana Tech University | 21200 | 26100 | 0.1879 | 10,881 | 1189 | 0.864 | |
| 59 | Tufts University | 21500 | 98900 | 0.7823 | 7,126 | 1507 | 0.1149 | |
| 59 | Webb Institute | 21500 | 73700 | 0.7085 | 106 | 1475 | 0.1404 | |
| 61 | La Roche University | 21700 | 72600 | 0.7014 | 1,828 | 1059 | 0.7576 | |
| 62 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 21800 | 37300 | 0.4156 | 26,221 | 1204 | 0.8854 | |
| 63 | University of New Mexico-Main Campus | 23000 | 27500 | 0.1618 | 17,450 | 1044 | 0.9518 | |
| 64 | Indiana State University | 23900 | 32400 | 0.2625 | 6,224 | 1020 | 0.8077 | |
| 65 | University of Kansas | 24100 | 43000 | 0.4406 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 66 | Judson University | 24200 | 49100 | 0.5069 | 718 | 1015 | 0.4759 | |
| 67 | Drury University | 25300 | 52900 | 0.5216 | 1,391 | 1228 | 0.5758 | |
| 68 | South Dakota State University | 25600 | 28700 | 0.1097 | 10,719 | 1120 | 0.9834 | |
| 69 | Marywood University | 26000 | 67700 | 0.6157 | 1,833 | 1160 | 0.6058 | |
| 69 | Mount Mary University | 26000 | 57200 | 0.545 | 752 | 1025 | 0.6233 | |
| 71 | Stony Brook University | 26100 | 33200 | 0.2129 | 18,263 | 1410 | 0.4904 | |
| 72 | Bowling Green State University-Main Campus | 26300 | 36800 | 0.2855 | 14,783 | 1124 | 0.8096 | |
| 73 | Ball State University | 26400 | 26400 | 0 | 15,189 | 1170 | 0.855 | |
| 74 | University of Southern Mississippi | 26500 | 26500 | 0 | 10,193 | 1181 | 0.9912 | |
| 75 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 26600 | 41500 | 0.3588 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 75 | University of Arkansas | 26600 | 28900 | 0.078 | 28,859 | 1179 | 0.743 | |
| 77 | University of Nevada-Las Vegas | 26700 | 36600 | 0.2704 | 27,132 | 1099 | 0.9617 | |
| 78 | University of Idaho | 27000 | 45200 | 0.4023 | 9,574 | 1119 | 0.7553 | |
| 79 | Hobart William Smith Colleges | 27100 | 88300 | 0.693 | 1,794 | 1308 | 0.6399 | |
| 80 | Syracuse University | 27700 | 83100 | 0.6665 | 15,957 | 1363 | 0.4592 | |
| 80 | University of North Alabama | 27700 | 37300 | 0.2574 | 7,662 | 1140 | 0.8731 | |
| 82 | North Dakota State University | 27800 | 30400 | 0.084 | 9,762 | 1110 | 0.9496 | |
| 83 | The Catholic University of America | 28500 | 81200 | 0.6494 | 3,177 | 1140 | 0.8278 | |
| 84 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 29100 | 29200 | 0.0034 | 18,288 | 1090 | 0.9068 | |
| 85 | University of Connecticut | 29200 | 39500 | 0.2608 | 20,056 | 1329 | 0.5239 | |
| 86 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 29900 | 42200 | 0.2913 | 15,375 | 1103 | 0.866 | |
| 87 | Kent State University at Kent | 30000 | 37500 | 0.2 | 20,841 | 1105 | 0.8634 | |
| 88 | Portland State University | 30700 | 43100 | 0.2887 | 15,414 | 1094 | 0.9087 | |
| 89 | Massachusetts Maritime Academy | 31000 | 40200 | 0.229 | 1,402 | 1120 | 0.947 | |
| 90 | Kean University | 31400 | 39500 | 0.2051 | 11,758 | 1040 | 0.759 | |
| 90 | Maine Maritime Academy | 31400 | 33400 | 0.06 | 945 | 1180 | 0.5414 | |
| 92 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | 32100 | 43100 | 0.2554 | 22,033 | 1321 | 0.3132 | |
| 92 | Ithaca College | 32100 | 72500 | 0.5571 | 4,268 | 1314 | 0.6901 | |
| 94 | Lawrence Technological University | 32200 | 71900 | 0.552 | 2,579 | 1159 | 0.559 | |
| 94 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 32200 | 36700 | 0.1214 | 41,303 | 1338 | 0.7975 | |
| 96 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32500 | 35100 | 0.0742 | 30,564 | 1302 | 0.416 | |
| 97 | University of Maine at Augusta | 32700 | 39600 | 0.1742 | 4,313 | 0 | 0 | |
| 97 | University of Rhode Island | 32700 | 46400 | 0.295 | 14,376 | 1148 | 0.7216 | |
| 99 | North Carolina State University | 32800 | 54800 | 0.4007 | 28,422 | 1378 | 0.4174 | |
| 100 | Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design | 33200 | 57400 | 0.4209 | 838 | 1143 | 0.6054 | |
| 101 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus | 33700 | 41000 | 0.1782 | 22,364 | 1159 | 0.7504 | |
| 102 | Thomas Jefferson University | 34100 | 68100 | 0.4995 | 3,772 | 1255 | 0.8097 | |
| 103 | Andrews University | 35000 | 70100 | 0.5008 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 103 | Chatham University | 35000 | 63300 | 0.4474 | 1,550 | 1197 | 0.6196 | |
| 105 | SUNY Maritime College | 35500 | 41600 | 0.1465 | 1,285 | 1215 | 0.7241 | |
| 105 | Texas Tech University | 35500 | 38900 | 0.0874 | 32,580 | 1200 | 0.7265 | |
| 107 | Temple University | 35600 | 56400 | 0.3689 | 21,457 | 1135 | 0.8041 | |
| 108 | Mississippi State University | 36300 | 50500 | 0.2804 | 18,567 | 1214 | 0.7764 | |
| 109 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 36400 | 47500 | 0.2338 | 65,450 | 1203 | 0.8989 | |
| 110 | California State University-Fresno | 36600 | 43800 | 0.1634 | 21,954 | 995 | 0.9526 | |
| 111 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 36800 | 38900 | 0.0552 | 23,329 | 1239 | 0.766 | |
| 112 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 37300 | 66300 | 0.4375 | 31,035 | 1366 | 0.5478 | |
| 113 | Benedictine College | 37700 | 50800 | 0.2579 | 2,403 | 1241 | 0.9812 | |
| 114 | Delaware Valley University | 39200 | 66900 | 0.4141 | 1,768 | 1208 | 0.9321 | |
| 115 | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 40400 | 47500 | 0.1495 | 31,127 | 1115 | 0.8679 | |
| 116 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 41300 | 55200 | 0.2517 | 25,900 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 117 | Concordia University-Wisconsin | 41400 | 57000 | 0.2738 | 2,401 | 1209 | 0.782 | |
| 118 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 41700 | 53200 | 0.2162 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 119 | Anderson University | 42300 | 53600 | 0.2108 | 3,683 | 1209 | 0.5471 | |
| 120 | University of Maryland-College Park | 42900 | 53600 | 0.1998 | 31,133 | 1463 | 0.4479 | |
| 121 | University of Florida | 43200 | 45700 | 0.0548 | 36,573 | 1399 | 0.242 | |
| 122 | University at Buffalo | 43900 | 46700 | 0.06 | 20,359 | 1303 | 0.7418 | |
| 123 | University of Illinois Chicago | 45100 | 50600 | 0.1087 | 22,495 | 1252 | 0.7735 | |
| 124 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 46100 | 86300 | 0.4656 | 5,741 | 1438 | 0.6347 | |
| 125 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 48000 | 55800 | 0.1398 | 32,545 | 1129 | 0.799 | |
| 126 | University of Delaware | 48300 | 61300 | 0.213 | 20,026 | 1294 | 0.706 | |
| 127 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48600 | 91400 | 0.4684 | 8,192 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 128 | Drexel University | 48800 | 83900 | 0.4184 | 13,309 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 128 | University of Georgia | 48800 | 51600 | 0.0542 | 32,399 | 1382 | 0.377 | |
| 130 | University of Kentucky | 49200 | 58000 | 0.153 | 25,534 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 131 | University of Utah | 51600 | 53700 | 0.04 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 132 | Woodbury University | 52900 | 69500 | 0.2388 | 786 | 1087 | 0.8165 | |
| 133 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | 53300 | 53300 | 0 | 33,033 | 1264 | 0.8529 | |
| 134 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 53700 | 62800 | 0.1449 | 23,920 | 1397 | 0.5973 | |
| 134 | University of San Francisco | 53700 | 84800 | 0.3666 | 5,321 | 1292 | 0.6171 | |
| 136 | Howard University | 54900 | 66500 | 0.1745 | 11,519 | 1208 | 0.4134 | |
| 137 | Miami University-Oxford | 57400 | 57400 | 0 | 16,816 | 1299 | 0.754 | |
| 138 | Auburn University | 58500 | 58500 | 0 | 27,907 | 1324 | 0.4592 | |
| 139 | Maryland Institute College of Art | 60700 | 71200 | 0.1476 | 1,191 | 1232 | 0.7679 | |
| 140 | Clemson University | 61500 | 63700 | 0.0338 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 141 | University of Oregon | 64100 | 71300 | 0.1003 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
| 142 | California College of the Arts | 65300 | 87600 | 0.2545 | 1,004 | 1079 | 0.911 | |
| 143 | Otis College of Art and Design | 66700 | 79800 | 0.1641 | 1,224 | 1335 | 0.8176 | |
| 144 | University of California-Berkeley | 70700 | 76100 | 0.071 | 33,070 | 1407 | 0.1098 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.