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2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$10,146 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

Urban & Regional Planning is the #162 most popular major in Texas with 172 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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.

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 Texas ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Texas 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas

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

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

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Texas at Arlington the best value school in Texas for urban and regional planning students working on their graduate certificate. UT Arlington is a very large public school located in the city of Arlington.

UT Arlington graduate students pay an average of $10,853 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas list. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $9,518 per year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Texas A&M University - College Station helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value urban and regional planning schools in Texas. Located in the city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas A&M College Station are $10,733 per year.

Texas A&M College Station also made our Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas list, coming in at #1.

Full Urban & Regional Planning at Texas A&M University - College Station Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at The University of Texas at San Antonio helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value urban and regional planning schools in Texas. UTSA is a fairly large public school located in the city of San Antonio.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UTSA are $9,479 per year.

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Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 270
New Mexico 11

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

Majors Similar to Urban Planning

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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