As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 11, 2020

File No. 333-195493

File No. 811-22961

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	[X]
Pre-Effective Amendment No.	[   ]
Post-Effective Amendment No. 28	[X]
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	[X]
Amendment No. 31	[X]

Alpha Architect ETF Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

213 Foxcroft Road

Broomall, Pennsylvania 19008

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Zip Code)

(215) 882-9983

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)

Wesley R. Gray

213 Foxcroft Road

Broomall, Pennsylvania 19008

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copy to:

Michael Pellegrino, Esq.

Pellegrino, LLC

303 West Lancaster Avenue, Suite 302

Wayne, PA 19087

It is proposed that this filing will become effective

[X]	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
[   ]	On February 4, 2020 pursuant to paragraph (b)
[   ]	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[   ]	on pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[   ]	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
[   ]	on ________________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box

[   ] this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

This Post-Effective Amendment (“PEA”) No. 28 to the Alpha Architect ETF Trust (the “Trust”) Registration Statement on Form N-1A hereby incorporates Parts A, B and C from the Trust’s PEA No. 27 on Form N-1A filed February 4, 2020. This PEA No. 28 is filed for the sole purpose of submitting the XBRL exhibits for the risk return summary first provided in PEA No. 27 to the Trust’s Registration Statement for its series Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF, Alpha Architect International Quantitative Value ETF, Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF, Alpha Architect International Quantitative Momentum ETF and Alpha Architect Value Momentum Trend ETF.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Trust certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment to its Registration Statement on Form N-1A under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 28 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement (File No. 333-195493) to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Broomall, State of Pennsylvania, on this 11th day of February, 2020.

ALPHA ARCHITECT ETF TRUST
By:	/s/ Wesley R. Gray
Wesley R. Gray
President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Wesley R. Gray	Trustee and President	February 11, 2020
Wesley R. Gray
/s/ John R. Vogel	Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer	February 11, 2020
John R. Vogel
/s/ Patrick Cleary	Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer	February 11, 2020
Patrick Cleary
/s/ Daniel Dorn	Trustee	February 11, 2020
Daniel Dorn*
/s/ Michael Pagano	Trustee	February 11, 2020
Michael Pagano*
/s/ Emeka Oguh	Trustee	February 11, 2020
Emeka Oguh*

By:	/s/ Wesley R. Gray
	Wesley R. Gray
	Attorney-in-Fact
	(Pursuant to Power of Attorney previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 25 to the Registrant’s registration statement on January 28, 2020)

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Exhibit Index

Exhibit	Exhibit No.
Instance Document	EX-101.INS
Schema Document	EX-101.SCH
Calculation Linkbase Document	EX-101.CAL
Definition Linkbase Document	EX-101.DEF
Label Linkbase Document	EX-101.LAB
Presentation Linkbase Document	EX-101.PRE

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