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Urban & Regional Planning at Cornell University

Urban & Regional Planning at Cornell University

If you plan to study urban & regional planning, take a look at what Cornell University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York and approximately 23,620 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Urban & Regional Planning section at the bottom of this page.

Cornell Urban & Regional Planning Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning

Cornell Urban & Regional Planning Rankings

The urban planning major at Cornell is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Urban & Regional Planning. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 3 students who received their doctoral degrees in urban planning, making the school the #11 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Urban Planning Student Demographics at Cornell

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the urban planning majors at Cornell University.

Cornell Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Program

32% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 68% of urban planning bachelor's degrees went to men and 32% went to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% more racial-ethnic minorities in its urban planning bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's in urban planning.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 4
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 6
International Students 5
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

Concentrations Within Urban & Regional Planning

If you plan to be a urban planning major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Cornell University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Urban & Regional Planning, General 59

Careers That Urban Planning Grads May Go Into

A degree in urban planning can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Cornell University.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Architectural and Engineering Managers 7,330 $161,670
Social Sciences Professors 2,570 $101,250
Urban and Regional Planners 1,410 $76,730
Architecture Professors 970 $135,190

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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