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2023 Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in New York

6 Colleges
$55,043 Avg Salary
$17,800 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning School for You

With 244 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, urban and regional planning is the #156 most popular major in New York.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in New York to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 6 schools in New York to see which ones offered the best programs for students.

View our full ranking methodology.

2023 Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges.

Top New York Schools in Urban & Regional Planning

#1

New York University

New York, NY

Our 2023 rankings named New York University the best school in New York for urban and regional planning students. Located in the large city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

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The excellent programs at Columbia University in the City of New York helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best urban and regional planning schools in New York. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

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#3

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Cornell University is a great place for urban and regional planning students. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Urban Planning majors at Cornell take out an average of $17,800 in student loans while working on their egree.

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#4

Pratt Institute - Main

Brooklyn, NY

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Pratt Institute - Main is a great place for urban and regional planning students. Pratt Institute is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Brooklyn.

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Out of the 6 schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, The City College of New York landed the # 5 spot on the list. CCNY is a fairly large public school located in the large city of New York.

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#6

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY

University at Buffalo came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in New York ranking. University at Buffalo is a very large public school located in the suburb of Buffalo.

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Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 78
Maryland 12
New Jersey 27
District of Columbia 25

One of 8 majors within the area of study, urban and regional planning has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 6 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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