Recent Articles
Considering a degree in Architecture?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Architecture majors who live in Massachusetts.
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 Massachusetts.
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 | Yale University | 5500 | 92200 | 0.94 | 6,814 | 1507 | 0.0387 | |
| 5 | United States Merchant Marine Academy | 7300 | 8600 | 0.1511 | 962 | 1214 | 0.3424 | |
| 6 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8300 | 97100 | 0.915 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0399 | |
| 7 | Carnegie Mellon University | 9000 | 90900 | 0.9007 | 7,377 | 1528 | 0.1166 | |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania | 9200 | 92900 | 0.9009 | 11,478 | 1536 | 0.054 | |
| 8 | Washington University in St Louis | 9200 | 102300 | 0.9104 | 8,220 | 1513 | 0.1206 | |
| 10 | Utah State University | 9700 | 26700 | 0.6361 | 25,706 | 1176 | 0.9247 | |
| 11 | Rice University | 9800 | 89100 | 0.8903 | 4,789 | 1535 | 0.08 | |
| 12 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | 10500 | 26000 | 0.5968 | 22,033 | 1321 | 0.3132 | |
| 13 | University of Notre Dame | 10600 | 86200 | 0.8775 | 8,880 | 1500 | 0.1127 | |
| 14 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11300 | 29100 | 0.6122 | 40,684 | 1331 | 0.3915 | |
| 14 | Wellesley College | 11300 | 90300 | 0.8754 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 16 | Cornell University | 11500 | 93100 | 0.8767 | 16,128 | 1521 | 0.0876 | |
| 17 | Florida Atlantic University | 11600 | 25800 | 0.5511 | 24,876 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 18 | Tufts University | 12000 | 92100 | 0.8698 | 7,126 | 1507 | 0.1149 | |
| 18 | University of Houston | 12000 | 28400 | 0.5781 | 39,257 | 1249 | 0.7392 | |
| 20 | Mount Holyoke College | 12300 | 88900 | 0.862 | 2,178 | 1449 | 0.3603 | |
| 21 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13300 | 13300 | 0 | 18,288 | 1090 | 0.9068 | |
| 22 | University of Georgia | 13600 | 26600 | 0.4887 | 32,399 | 1382 | 0.377 | |
| 23 | Middlebury College | 13700 | 89900 | 0.8477 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 23 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13700 | 47300 | 0.7099 | 38,040 | 1418 | 0.452 | |
| 25 | Brown University | 13900 | 94000 | 0.8521 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 25 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 13900 | 88900 | 0.844 | 4,535 | 1542 | 0.0455 | |
| 27 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 15300 | 31000 | 0.506 | 8,553 | 1045 | 0.8688 | |
| 28 | Lehigh University | 15400 | 89600 | 0.8286 | 5,911 | 1436 | 0.2593 | |
| 28 | Northeastern University | 15400 | 89100 | 0.8275 | 17,432 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 30 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | 15800 | 22300 | 0.2912 | 24,868 | 1214 | 0.796 | |
| 31 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 15900 | 27700 | 0.4254 | 32,545 | 1129 | 0.799 | |
| 31 | University of Kansas | 15900 | 34900 | 0.5443 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 33 | Portland State University | 16000 | 26100 | 0.3868 | 15,414 | 1094 | 0.9087 | |
| 34 | California State University-Sacramento | 16100 | 27600 | 0.417 | 28,820 | 1035 | 0.9399 | |
| 35 | University of Florida | 16300 | 22500 | 0.2755 | 36,573 | 1399 | 0.242 | |
| 36 | Connecticut College | 16600 | 95300 | 0.8254 | 1,990 | 1421 | 0.3704 | |
| 37 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 16800 | 26300 | 0.3609 | 19,701 | 1214 | 0.8749 | |
| 38 | Bennington College | 17100 | 89500 | 0.8094 | 797 | 1370 | 0.4453 | |
| 39 | Keene State College | 17500 | 32100 | 0.4539 | 2,725 | 1085 | 0.9033 | |
| 40 | Barnard College | 17600 | 99700 | 0.8232 | 3,487 | 1499 | 0.0884 | |
| 40 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 17600 | 29900 | 0.4136 | 60,710 | 1278 | 0.5743 | |
| 42 | SUNY College of Technology at Alfred | 17700 | 38700 | 0.5421 | 3,781 | 1100 | 0.7568 | |
| 43 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 17800 | 39000 | 0.543 | 37,985 | 1390 | 0.5815 | |
| 44 | Texas Tech University | 18100 | 27100 | 0.3326 | 32,580 | 1200 | 0.7265 | |
| 45 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 18800 | 31000 | 0.394 | 13,432 | 1225 | 0.8701 | |
| 46 | Norwich University | 19400 | 73800 | 0.7369 | 2,626 | 1186 | 0.7444 | |
| 47 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 19700 | 78700 | 0.7498 | 17,885 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 48 | University of New Orleans | 19800 | 30600 | 0.3535 | 5,419 | 1040 | 0.7431 | |
| 48 | University of Southern California | 19800 | 75900 | 0.7395 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 50 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 20100 | 45200 | 0.5559 | 31,035 | 1366 | 0.5478 | |
| 51 | Purdue University-Main Campus | 20700 | 30600 | 0.326 | 44,819 | 1327 | 0.4987 | |
| 52 | North Dakota State University | 20800 | 25700 | 0.1898 | 9,762 | 1110 | 0.9496 | |
| 52 | University of Memphis | 20800 | 29600 | 0.2976 | 15,770 | 1075 | 0.7203 | |
| 54 | Louisiana Tech University | 21200 | 26100 | 0.1879 | 10,881 | 1189 | 0.864 | |
| 55 | Webb Institute | 21400 | 89600 | 0.7608 | 106 | 1475 | 0.1404 | |
| 56 | La Roche University | 21700 | 72600 | 0.7014 | 1,828 | 1059 | 0.7576 | |
| 57 | Hampshire College | 22600 | 83900 | 0.731 | 844 | 1254 | 0.7528 | |
| 58 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 22800 | 35400 | 0.3541 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 59 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 23200 | 34500 | 0.3279 | 65,450 | 1203 | 0.8989 | |
| 60 | University of Kentucky | 23800 | 36400 | 0.3476 | 25,534 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 61 | Indiana State University | 23900 | 32400 | 0.2625 | 6,224 | 1020 | 0.8077 | |
| 62 | Judson University | 24100 | 49100 | 0.5086 | 718 | 1015 | 0.4759 | |
| 63 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 24400 | 40500 | 0.3976 | 25,900 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 64 | Drury University | 25200 | 52900 | 0.5235 | 1,391 | 1228 | 0.5758 | |
| 65 | South Dakota State University | 25400 | 28700 | 0.1143 | 10,719 | 1120 | 0.9834 | |
| 66 | Mount Mary University | 25900 | 57200 | 0.5463 | 752 | 1025 | 0.6233 | |
| 67 | Marywood University | 26000 | 67700 | 0.6157 | 1,833 | 1160 | 0.6058 | |
| 68 | Stony Brook University | 26100 | 33200 | 0.2129 | 18,263 | 1410 | 0.4904 | |
| 69 | Bowling Green State University-Main Campus | 26300 | 36800 | 0.2855 | 14,783 | 1124 | 0.8096 | |
| 70 | Ball State University | 26400 | 26400 | 0 | 15,189 | 1170 | 0.855 | |
| 71 | University of Southern Mississippi | 26500 | 26500 | 0 | 10,193 | 1181 | 0.9912 | |
| 72 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 26600 | 41500 | 0.3588 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 72 | University of Arkansas | 26600 | 28900 | 0.079 | 28,859 | 1179 | 0.743 | |
| 74 | University of Nevada-Las Vegas | 26700 | 36600 | 0.2704 | 27,132 | 1099 | 0.9617 | |
| 75 | University of Idaho | 26800 | 45200 | 0.4067 | 9,574 | 1119 | 0.7553 | |
| 76 | Hobart William Smith Colleges | 26900 | 88300 | 0.6952 | 1,794 | 1308 | 0.6399 | |
| 77 | University of New Mexico-Main Campus | 27500 | 43800 | 0.3725 | 17,450 | 1044 | 0.9518 | |
| 78 | University of North Alabama | 27700 | 37300 | 0.2574 | 7,662 | 1140 | 0.8731 | |
| 79 | Syracuse University | 27800 | 83100 | 0.6653 | 15,957 | 1363 | 0.4592 | |
| 80 | Mississippi State University | 28100 | 32300 | 0.1323 | 18,567 | 1214 | 0.7764 | |
| 81 | Morgan State University | 29500 | 41900 | 0.2962 | 9,027 | 965 | 0.8223 | |
| 82 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 29900 | 42200 | 0.2913 | 15,375 | 1103 | 0.866 | |
| 83 | Kent State University at Kent | 30000 | 37500 | 0.2 | 20,841 | 1105 | 0.8634 | |
| 84 | Massachusetts Maritime Academy | 30200 | 40200 | 0.249 | 1,402 | 1120 | 0.947 | |
| 85 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31200 | 48800 | 0.361 | 20,591 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 86 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona | 31400 | 41200 | 0.2381 | 25,255 | 1134 | 0.7517 | |
| 86 | North Carolina A & T State University | 31400 | 36700 | 0.1443 | 12,497 | 1075 | 0.499 | |
| 88 | Ithaca College | 32000 | 72500 | 0.5585 | 4,268 | 1314 | 0.6901 | |
| 89 | Lawrence Technological University | 32200 | 71900 | 0.552 | 2,579 | 1159 | 0.559 | |
| 90 | North Carolina State University | 32700 | 54800 | 0.4031 | 28,422 | 1378 | 0.4174 | |
| 90 | Prairie View A & M University | 32700 | 39600 | 0.1742 | 8,877 | 975 | 0.7931 | |
| 90 | University of Maine at Augusta | 32700 | 39600 | 0.1742 | 4,313 | 0 | 0 | |
| 90 | University of Rhode Island | 32700 | 44300 | 0.2616 | 14,376 | 1148 | 0.7216 | |
| 94 | Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design | 33300 | 57400 | 0.4197 | 838 | 1143 | 0.6054 | |
| 95 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus | 33700 | 41000 | 0.1782 | 22,364 | 1159 | 0.7504 | |
| 96 | Thomas Jefferson University | 34100 | 68100 | 0.4995 | 3,772 | 1255 | 0.8097 | |
| 97 | Chatham University | 34900 | 63300 | 0.449 | 1,550 | 1197 | 0.6196 | |
| 98 | Andrews University | 35000 | 70100 | 0.5008 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 99 | Temple University | 35400 | 56400 | 0.3724 | 21,457 | 1135 | 0.8041 | |
| 100 | SUNY Maritime College | 35500 | 41600 | 0.1465 | 1,285 | 1215 | 0.7241 | |
| 101 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 36600 | 40000 | 0.085 | 2,381 | 1239 | 0.6328 | |
| 102 | California State University-Fresno | 36700 | 43800 | 0.1622 | 21,954 | 995 | 0.9526 | |
| 103 | University of Connecticut | 37100 | 51200 | 0.2753 | 20,056 | 1329 | 0.5239 | |
| 104 | Benedictine College | 37700 | 50800 | 0.2579 | 2,403 | 1241 | 0.9812 | |
| 105 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 38400 | 53100 | 0.2767 | 30,564 | 1302 | 0.416 | |
| 106 | Delaware Valley University | 39200 | 66900 | 0.4141 | 1,768 | 1208 | 0.9321 | |
| 107 | University of Central Florida | 39700 | 39700 | 0 | 59,552 | 1280 | 0.4011 | |
| 108 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 40300 | 50000 | 0.1942 | 34,242 | 1273 | 0.7333 | |
| 109 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5061 | 33,475 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 110 | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 40500 | 52100 | 0.2228 | 31,127 | 1115 | 0.8679 | |
| 111 | Concordia University-Wisconsin | 41200 | 57000 | 0.2773 | 2,401 | 1209 | 0.782 | |
| 112 | Anderson University | 42300 | 53600 | 0.2108 | 3,683 | 1209 | 0.5471 | |
| 113 | Kean University | 42400 | 48300 | 0.1222 | 11,758 | 1040 | 0.759 | |
| 114 | University of Maryland-College Park | 42800 | 53600 | 0.2016 | 31,133 | 1463 | 0.4479 | |
| 115 | University of Massachusetts-Boston | 43300 | 57500 | 0.2469 | 12,138 | 1189 | 0.8378 | |
| 116 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 43800 | 57100 | 0.2328 | 23,329 | 1239 | 0.766 | |
| 117 | University at Buffalo | 43900 | 46700 | 0.06 | 20,359 | 1303 | 0.7418 | |
| 118 | University of Illinois Chicago | 45100 | 50600 | 0.1087 | 22,495 | 1252 | 0.7735 | |
| 119 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 46100 | 86300 | 0.4656 | 5,741 | 1438 | 0.6347 | |
| 120 | University of Colorado Boulder | 46900 | 57700 | 0.1873 | 32,244 | 1351 | 0.7808 | |
| 121 | Maine Maritime Academy | 47200 | 49800 | 0.0522 | 945 | 1180 | 0.5414 | |
| 122 | University of Delaware | 48300 | 61300 | 0.213 | 20,026 | 1294 | 0.706 | |
| 123 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48400 | 91400 | 0.4706 | 8,192 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 124 | Drexel University | 48600 | 83900 | 0.4208 | 13,309 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 125 | The University of Texas at Austin | 49700 | 59400 | 0.1633 | 43,165 | 1356 | 0.2664 | |
| 126 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 50800 | 84700 | 0.4003 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 127 | University of Utah | 51400 | 53700 | 0.0425 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 128 | Woodbury University | 52800 | 69500 | 0.2402 | 786 | 1087 | 0.8165 | |
| 129 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 52900 | 61200 | 0.1353 | 26,221 | 1204 | 0.8854 | |
| 130 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 53200 | 61000 | 0.1291 | 41,303 | 1338 | 0.7975 | |
| 131 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | 53300 | 53300 | 0 | 33,033 | 1264 | 0.8529 | |
| 132 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 53600 | 62800 | 0.1465 | 23,920 | 1397 | 0.5973 | |
| 133 | University of San Francisco | 53700 | 84800 | 0.3666 | 5,321 | 1292 | 0.6171 | |
| 134 | Howard University | 54900 | 66500 | 0.1745 | 11,519 | 1208 | 0.4134 | |
| 135 | Miami University-Oxford | 57400 | 57400 | 0 | 16,816 | 1299 | 0.754 | |
| 136 | Auburn University | 58500 | 58500 | 0 | 27,907 | 1324 | 0.4592 | |
| 137 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 60700 | 63000 | 0.0362 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 137 | Maryland Institute College of Art | 60700 | 71200 | 0.1476 | 1,191 | 1232 | 0.7679 | |
| 139 | Clemson University | 61400 | 63700 | 0.0358 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 140 | California College of the Arts | 65300 | 87600 | 0.2545 | 1,004 | 1079 | 0.911 | |
| 141 | Otis College of Art and Design | 66600 | 79800 | 0.1654 | 1,224 | 1335 | 0.8176 | |
| 142 | University of Oregon | 66700 | 68900 | 0.0331 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
| 143 | University of California-Berkeley | 70700 | 76100 | 0.071 | 33,070 | 1407 | 0.1098 | |
| 144 | The Catholic University of America | 82500 | 82500 | 0 | 3,177 | 1140 | 0.8278 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.