Architecture & planning

Architectural Sciences and Technology

California College of the Arts · San Francisco, CA

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$57,946Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Grouped debt estimate$31,000Same subject at 3 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Bachelor's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$47,260
Same subject · national$42,682
Architecture & planning · national$44,887

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $44,586–$49,007.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Bachelor's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Woodbury UniversityArchitecture$49,064
La Roche UniversityInterior Architecture$42,682
Chatham UniversityInterior Architecture$32,382
Lawrence Technological UniversityArchitecture$53,608
New York Institute of TechnologyArchitectural Sciences and Technology, Architecture$47,260
Judson UniversityArchitecture$26,933
Drury UniversityArchitecture$47,650
Marywood UniversityArchitecture$47,260
Wentworth Institute of TechnologyArchitecture$50,105
Thomas Jefferson UniversityArchitectural Sciences and Technology, Architecture, Interior Architecture$46,087
Illinois Institute of TechnologyArchitecture$48,988
Roger Williams UniversityArchitecture$45,221
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗