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2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$17,364 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 9 degrees and certificates were awarded to urban and regional planning students who went to a Rhode Island college or university. This makes it the #157 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for urban planning students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

Check out the urban planning graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Urban & Regional Planning

Our 2023 rankings named University of Rhode Island the best value school in Rhode Island for urban and regional planning students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large suburb of Kingston, URI is a public college with a fairly large student population.

URI graduate students pay an average of $16,322 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

URI not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Roger Williams University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value urban and regional planning schools in Rhode Island. Located in the suburb of Bristol, RWU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at RWU are $18,406 a year.

RWU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Roger Williams University

Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

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

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 2 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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