Institution | State | Earnings | Avg Net Price | Median Debt | Lifetime Value Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Florida Gainesville | FL | $88,820 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $6,541 /yr | $44,685 | +$331k |
| California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo | CA | $80,022 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $16,665 /yr | - | +$279k |
| University of Utah Salt Lake City | UT | $83,978 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $16,200 /yr | - | +$272k |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus | OH | $82,952 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $17,339 /yr | $31,806 | +$261k |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg | VA | $84,023 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $24,953 /yr | $44,712 | +$256k |
| Boston Architectural College Boston | MA | $83,817 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $25,865 /yr | $64,681 | +$253k |
| University of Houston Houston | TX | $80,510 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $14,276 /yr | - | +$246k |
| Cornell University Ithaca | NY | $83,284 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $28,690 /yr | - | +$243k |
| University of Notre Dame Notre Dame | IN | $82,270 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $26,780 /yr | $79,525 | +$238k |
| California Baptist University Riverside | CA | $81,768 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $26,285 /yr | - | +$235k |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles | CA | $78,757 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $12,548 /yr | - | +$234k |
| Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale | IL | $78,062 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $13,297 /yr | $30,233 | +$226k |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin | TX | $79,350 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $19,857 /yr | $69,004 | +$226k |
| University of Maryland-College Park College Park | MD | $78,226 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $15,678 /yr | - | +$224k |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle | WA | $77,526 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $14,091 /yr | $91,538 | +$220k |
| Texas A&M University-College Station College Station | TX | $78,997 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $21,315 /yr | - | +$220k |
| University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Denver | CO | $74,820 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $11,900 /yr | $66,290 | +$201k |
| Clemson University Clemson | SC | $76,905 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $22,253 /yr | - | +$200k |
| The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington | TX | $74,622 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $13,951 /yr | $31,000 | +$196k |
| University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati | OH | $76,450 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $25,648 /yr | - | +$190k |
| Texas Tech University Lubbock | TX | $74,979 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $19,070 /yr | $26,578 | +$189k |
| Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Tallahassee | FL | $73,496 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $13,739 /yr | - | +$186k |
| University of Hartford West Hartford | CT | $76,853 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $30,282 /yr | - | +$185k |
| Southern California Institute of Architecture Los Angeles | CA | $78,626 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $43,923 /yr | - | +$175k |
| Portland State University Portland | OR | $71,002 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $9,552 /yr | - | +$173k |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis | MN | $72,487 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $16,778 /yr | - | +$172k |
| University of South Florida Tampa | FL | $70,924 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $9,812 /yr | $59,989 | +$171k |
| University of Detroit Mercy Detroit | MI | $71,282 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $15,232 /yr | $30,500 | +$165k |
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee | WI | $70,937 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $15,014 /yr | - | +$162k |
| Kent State University at Kent Kent | OH | $71,894 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $20,787 /yr | $29,937 | +$160k |
| University of Kansas Lawrence | KS | $71,293 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $18,059 /yr | $20,500 | +$159k |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte | NC | $70,585 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $15,435 /yr | - | +$158k |
| Roger Williams University Bristol | RI | $75,242 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $37,999 /yr | $61,236 | +$157k |
| University of Oregon Eugene | OR | $71,724 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $22,182 /yr | $87,738 | +$156k |
| Montana State University Bozeman | MT | $71,784 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $22,499 /yr | - | +$156k |
| Florida International University Miami | FL | $68,932 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $9,288 /yr | $30,750 | +$155k |
| Norwich University Northfield | VT | $71,564 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $22,257 /yr | - | +$154k |
| Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston | MA | $74,049 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $34,170 /yr | $20,500 | +$154k |
| University of Kentucky Lexington | KY | $69,700 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $18,851 /yr | - | +$144k |
| University of Illinois Chicago Chicago | IL | $67,711 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $10,974 /yr | - | +$141k |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh | NC | $68,840 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $17,303 /yr | $48,033 | +$140k |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge | MA | $65,238 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $20,111 /yr | - | +$138k |
| Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans | LA | $72,973 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $39,949 /yr | - | +$134k |
| Judson University Elgin | IL | $68,365 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $18,558 /yr | - | +$133k |
| The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio | TX | $66,397 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $10,836 /yr | $31,166 | +$130k |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago | IL | $74,629 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $49,790 /yr | - | +$130k |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley | CA | $63,005 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $13,481 /yr | - | +$129k |
| Prairie View A & M University Prairie View | TX | $65,641 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $13,570 /yr | $23,801 | +$119k |
| North Dakota State University-Main Campus Fargo | ND | $66,004 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $15,543 /yr | $20,293 | +$118k |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York | NY | $63,362 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $21,590 /yr | - | +$118k |
| California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona | CA | $61,218 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $11,531 /yr | - | +$116k |
| University at Buffalo Buffalo | NY | $66,761 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $20,995 /yr | - | +$115k |
| Harvard University Cambridge | MA | $62,064 Nat: $74,222 2yr Post-Grad | $19,066 /yr | - | +$110k |
| Yale University New Haven | CT | $62,012 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $23,777 /yr | - | +$101k |
| University of Idaho Moscow | ID | $63,941 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $14,831 /yr | - | +$101k |
| Andrews University Berrien Springs | MI | $59,169 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $12,547 /yr | - | +$95k |
| University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette | LA | $62,384 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $13,530 /yr | - | +$90k |
| Hampton University Hampton | VA | $64,180 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $25,319 /yr | $28,169 | +$84k |
| CUNY City College New York | NY | $56,302 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $3,776 /yr | - | +$84k |
| Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta | GA | $56,776 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $12,116 /yr | - | +$73k |
| University of Southern California Los Angeles | CA | $59,948 Nat: $74,222 2yr Post-Grad | $32,740 /yr | - | +$65k |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark | NJ | $55,964 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $16,504 /yr | - | +$57k |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor | MI | $54,855 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $13,138 /yr | - | +$52k |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign | IL | $53,839 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $14,355 /yr | - | +$40k |
| Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago | IL | $54,600 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $18,425 /yr | - | +$40k |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville | VA | $55,151 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $21,565 /yr | - | +$40k |
| University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia | PA | $55,693 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $28,699 /yr | - | +$32k |
| Washington State University Pullman | WA | $53,045 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $14,971 /yr | - | +$31k |
| University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas | NV | $50,105 Nat: $74,222 2yr Post-Grad | $10,359 /yr | - | +$11k |
| The New School New York | NY | $59,124 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $58,741 /yr | - | +$10k |
| Washington University in St Louis St. Louis | MO | $52,107 Nat: $74,222 2yr Post-Grad | $21,786 /yr | - | +$10k |
| Ball State University Muncie | IN | $50,515 Nat: $74,222 2yr Post-Grad | $14,940 /yr | - | +$6k |
| Woodbury University Burbank | CA | $53,358 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $33,692 /yr | - | +$59 |
| The School of Architecture Scottsdale | AZ | - Nat: $74,139 | - /yr | - | -$0 |
| Newschool of Architecture and Design San Diego | CA | - Nat: $74,139 | $52,570 /yr | - | -$0 |
| University of the District of Columbia Washington | DC | - Nat: $74,139 | $10,648 /yr | - | -$0 |
| University of Miami Coral Gables | FL | - Nat: $74,139 | $37,244 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge | LA | - Nat: $74,139 | $19,151 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Morgan State University Baltimore | MD | - Nat: $74,139 | $14,985 /yr | - | -$0 |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst | MA | - Nat: $74,139 | $22,383 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston | MA | - Nat: $74,139 | $24,100 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills | MI | - Nat: $74,139 | - /yr | - | -$0 |
| Ferris State University Big Rapids | MI | - Nat: $74,139 | $8,624 /yr | - | -$0 |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln | NE | - Nat: $74,139 | $17,747 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Princeton University Princeton | NJ | - Nat: $74,139 | $6,128 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy | NY | - Nat: $74,139 | $36,228 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester | NY | - Nat: $74,139 | $34,906 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Bowling Green | OH | - Nat: $74,139 | $24,022 /yr | - | -$0 |
| University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman | OK | - Nat: $74,139 | $15,300 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park | PA | - Nat: $74,139 | $32,875 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia | PA | - Nat: $74,139 | $28,928 /yr | - | -$0 |
| South Dakota State University Brookings | SD | - Nat: $74,139 | $19,841 /yr | - | -$0 |
| University of Memphis Memphis | TN | - Nat: $74,139 | $12,397 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Rice University Houston | TX | - Nat: $74,139 | $13,370 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Gurabo Campus Gurabo | PR | - Nat: $74,139 | $7,051 /yr | - | -$0 |
| Miami University-Oxford Oxford | OH | $52,107 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $28,384 /yr | - | -$2k |
| California College of the Arts San Francisco | CA | $56,776 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $53,909 /yr | - | -$4k |
| The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville | TN | $49,621 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $18,976 /yr | - | -$10k |
| Louisiana Tech University Ruston | LA | $47,260 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $11,864 /yr | - | -$20k |
| Kansas State University Manhattan | KS | $48,432 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $19,406 /yr | - | -$22k |
| University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque | NM | $47,260 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $15,489 /yr | - | -$27k |
| Iowa State University Ames | IA | $47,260 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $18,589 /yr | - | -$33k |
| University of Arizona Tucson | AZ | $46,673 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $16,674 /yr | - | -$35k |
| University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras San Juan | PR | $44,338 Nat: $74,139 4yr Post-Grad | $9,175 /yr | $13,500 | -$71k |
| Rhode Island School of Design Providence | RI | $48,198 Nat: $74,139 2yr Post-Grad | $50,507 /yr | - | -$82k |
Analysis Notes:
- Lifetime Value Added: Net Present Value (NPV) of estimated career earnings relative to a median high school graduate, accounting for this institution's average cost and taxes.
- Avg Net Price: The average price paid by students who receive federal financial aid (grants/loans).
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