Urban & Regional Planning at Temple University

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

Temple is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and approximately 37,236 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 15 urban planning majors received their bachelor's degree from Temple.

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.

Temple Urban & Regional Planning Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning
• Master’s Degree in Urban Planning

Temple Urban & Regional Planning Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks urban planning programs across the country. The following shows how Temple performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The urban planning major at Temple 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools	57

In 2021, 13 students received their master’s degree in urban planning from Temple. This makes it the #35 most popular school for urban planning master’s degree candidates in the country.

Urban Planning Student Demographics at Temple

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

Temple Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Program

Of the 15 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Urban & Regional Planning from Temple in 2020-2021, 53% were men and 47% were women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in urban planning at Temple are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Temple Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Program

Of the 13 students who graduated with a master’s in urban planning from Temple in 2021, 46% were men and 54% were women.

Of the students who received a urban planning master's degree from Temple, 85% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Temple also has a doctoral program available in urban planning. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Landscape Architecture
• Architectural Sciences & Technology

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 PA, the home state for Temple University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	7,220	$150,400
Urban and Regional Planners	1,420	$67,720
Social Sciences Professors	590	$95,490

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Audrey under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.