2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in Pennsylvania
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning School for You
With 78 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, urban and regional planning is the #200 most popular major in Pennsylvania.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
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 Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value 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. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality in Urban & Regional Planning
Our analysis found Temple University to be the best value school for urban and regional planning students who want to pursue a degree in Pennsylvania. Temple is a very large public school located in the city of Philadelphia.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Temple are $17,378 a year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.
In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UPenn are $61,710 per year.
UPenn did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in Pennsylvania list.
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| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| New York | 244 |
| Maryland | 12 |
| New Jersey | 27 |
| District of Columbia | 25 |
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Majors Related to Urban Planning
One of 8 majors within the area of study, urban and regional planning has other similar majors worth exploring.
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 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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