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2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$31,486 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,771 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor'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. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which bachelor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for urban planning students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Urban & Regional Planning

#1

Ball State University

Muncie, IN

Our 2023 rankings named Ball State University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for urban and regional planning students working on their bachelor’s degree. Ball State is a very large public school located in the small city of Muncie.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Ball State are $27,524 per year.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Miami University - Oxford helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value urban and regional planning schools in the Great Lakes Region . Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large public school located in the fringe town of Oxford.

Miami University - Oxford undergraduate students pay an average of $36,288 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Miami University - Oxford also is in the top 20% of our Best Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

Full Urban & Regional Planning at Miami University - Oxford Report

Out of the 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Cincinnati, UC is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UC are $27,111 a year.

Full Urban & Regional Planning at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus Report

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Ohio State University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value urban and regional planning schools in the Great Lakes Region . Ohio State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Columbus.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Ohio State are $35,019 per year. While working on their Bachelor's Degree, urban planning majors at Ohio State accumulate an average of around $25,353 in student debt.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Ohio State also did well on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges by State

Explore the best urban and regional planning colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 35
Ohio 127
Illinois 0
Indiana 24
Wisconsin 30

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 4 schools only.

  • 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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