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

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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$30,209 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,882 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning Master'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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which master'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.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master'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 master’s degree. Ball State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Muncie.

Ball State graduate students pay an average of $26,600 in tuition and fees each year.

Ball State excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kent State University at Kent. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the suburb of Kent, Kent State is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Kent State are $21,952 a year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value urban and regional planning schools in the Great Lakes Region . UWM is a very large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UWM are $25,651 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Ohio State is a very large public school located in the city of Columbus.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Ohio State are $38,377 a year.

Ohio State also claimed a spot on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

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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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