Cal Poly SLO is also highly ranked for Architecture although it won’t be within budget, but more affordable than uCs. The Arch rankings are quite different from the usual rankings (for instance, Kent State). In the same vein, colleges that are highly ranked by USNWR overall may not match Engineering reputation (although sometimes they do).
©Avg.delulu.student : when you run the NPC on some of the meet-need colleges on your list, are they within your 40k budget?