<p>Are there any good colleges that: </p>
<ul>
<li>has a good Architectural Program</li>
<li>has a cheaper tuition (hopefully less than $25,000) OR is very good in Financial Aid</li>
<li>is Located in NorthEastern part of the US </li>
<li>is not a giant school</li>
<li>Best for undergrad students</li>
</ul>
<p>yale, undoubtedly the best architectural school in the country.</p>
<p>others: carnegie mellon, columbia, cornell, notre dame, princeton, rice, tulane, washington university, penn state, barnard, wellesley, MIT and SUNY - Buffalo</p>
<p>Um, the ultimate answer is Cooper Union(sorry Yale ;) ), a school for only the best aspiring architects, is tuition free for all student accepted. Beware, Cooper Union's architecture program, I believe, is the most competitive in the nation, getting into an Ivy can be easier.</p>
<p>Just as competitive are the architecture programs at Pratt, Princeton, and Cornell, & Yale... but those are cream of the crop, if you want a solid architecture program that's not as cut throught, look at:</p>
<p>Lehigh University
Northeastern University
Drexel (architectural engineering program is up there with MIT)
Carnegie Mellon
Parsons
Rhode Island School of Design</p>
<p>If you're a girl there's Wellesley, Barnard, and Mount Holyoke.</p>
<p>Outside of those three al-girls school, there's only a few liberal arts schools with good programs in the NE:</p>
<p>Roger Williams
Hobart & Williams Smith
Catholic University of America
Bennington College
Connecticut College</p>
<p>Rice....
throwing in some school pride in here (tuition is below $25,000), but if you throw in room + board, you get about a $32,000 deal...</p>
<p>except it's not NE</p>
<p>DEFINITELY Cooper Union. Hands down. It's the Nicole Kidman of architecture. And it's so hard to get into that they give you free tuition for your troubles.</p>
<p>"DEFINITELY Cooper Union. Hands down. It's the Nicole Kidman of architecture. And it's so hard to get into that they give you free tuition for your troubles."</p>
<p>....ARE YOU SERIOUS??!?!? you better not be joking.... FREE tuition?!?!</p>
<p>Did we stutter, read by post again, Cooper Union is THE school for only THE best aspiring architects, and is tuition free for all student accepted. Beware, Cooper Union's architecture program, I believe, is the most competitive in the nation, getting into an Ivy can be easier.</p>
<p>Cooper Union has the top one I've heard about often.</p>
<p>I know see that it has already been mentioned lol</p>
<p>Try Syracuse.</p>
<p>Oh, I also wanted to add in that Id really like diversity in the school. It makes the enviornment so much more interesting to be in. </p>
<p>See I would like to go to Rice but it is far from where I live and im not so sure... please keep in mind about the financial aide also. </p>
<p>I am not willing to spend a lot of money as an undergrad and I will leave those expensive colleges and Ivy leagues for graduate school.</p>
<p>Diversity, okay, Cooper Union, 44% minority, and it's in NYC</p>
<p>who cares about cooper? basically people all over the country will look at you with more respect if that degree says yale or cornell on it, out west and in the midwest no one really knows anything about it, even architects unless they atteneded.</p>
<p>if you are flexible about location, you should definately consider tulane! a top 50 school located in new orleans, it has an amazing reputation for architecture. it is great for both grad and undergrad students and is home to about 6,000 undergrads.</p>
<p><a href="http://www2.tulane.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www2.tulane.edu/</a></p>
<p>This is a great thread, if for no other reason that it shows how the notion of prestige and brand name fits in to your choice (and is typically a worthless concept). Half the posts hail Cooper and others say CU, so what.</p>
<p>BTW for my 2cents, Cooper Union is probably the most respected architecture program in the entire country. Many moons ago it received an endowment such that there ain't no tuition, as posted above. Tough, tough, tough to get in. But, you don't need to worry about social life and other issues in picking this school. All you will do there is study. but, that's probably true at any arch program worth anything, it is probably the toughest undergrad major and then you get to go to grad school and intern. Not unlike a med track - it is a tough road.</p>