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2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$34,895 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate 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. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to see which graduate certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for urban planning majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Southeast Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Urban & Regional Planning

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Our analysis found University of Florida to be the best value school for urban and regional planning students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southeast Region . UF is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Gainesville.

UF graduate students pay an average of $30,130 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UF is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Virginia - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Virginia are $33,520 per year.

University of Virginia did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list.

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#3

University of Miami

Coral Gables, FL

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Miami is a great value for urban and regional planning students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Coral Gables, U Miami is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at U Miami are $41,036 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, U Miami also is in the top 20% of our Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking.

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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 Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 57
Virginia 63
North Carolina 70
Florida 156
Tennessee 7
Kentucky 8
South Carolina 22
Louisiana 10
Alabama 26
Mississippi 3

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.

  • 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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