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Best Urban & Regional Planning Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

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2023 Best Urban & Regional Planning Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

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Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning Master's Degree School for You

Urban & Regional Planning is the #181 most popular major in the country with 2,419 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Urban & Regional Planning Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best educational experiences for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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2023 Best Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for urban planning majors pursuing a master's degree.

Top New England Region Schools for a Master's in Urban & Regional Planning

Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best school in the New England Region for urban and regional planning students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Full Urban & Regional Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Report

#2

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

The excellent master’s degree programs at Harvard University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best urban and regional planning schools in the New England Region . Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

Full Urban & Regional Planning at Harvard University Report

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Massachusetts Amherst helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best urban and regional planning schools in the New England Region . UMass Amherst is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Amherst.

Full Urban & Regional Planning at University of Massachusetts Amherst Report

Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges by State

Explore the best urban and regional planning schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 139
Connecticut 5
New Hampshire 17
Maine 9
Rhode Island 9
Vermont 0

Urban & Regional Planning is one of 8 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology 6,781
General Architecture 4,982
Landscape Architecture 905
Environmental Design 741
Interior Architecture 728

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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