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2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$39,393 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,203 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning 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. 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 Schools in the New England Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 7 schools in the New England Region to see which 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 Schools in the New England Region

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

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Urban & Regional Planning

$37,355 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Roger Williams University to be the best value school for urban and regional planning students who want to pursue a degree in the New England Region . RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Bristol.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at RWU are $37,355 per year.

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

Out of the 7 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at MIT are $55,878 a year.

MIT did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region list.

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#3

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Out of the 7 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

Harvard undergraduate students pay an average of $55,587 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Harvard also did well on our Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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#4

Yale University

New Haven, CT

The excellent programs at Yale University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best urban and regional planning schools in the New England Region . Yale is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New Haven.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Yale are $59,950 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Yale also is in the top 10% of our Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region ranking.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Yale University

$33,354 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 7 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the # 5 spot on the list. URI is a large public school located in the suburb of Kingston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at URI are $33,354 per year.

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$36,964 Average Tuition & Fees

With a ranking of #6, University of Massachusetts Amherst did quite well on this year’s best value schools for urban and regional planning students. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.

UMass Amherst undergraduate students pay an average of $36,964 in tuition and fees each year.

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#7

Westfield State University

Westfield, MA
$17,219 Average Tuition & Fees

Westfield State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for urban and regional planning students. It came in at #7 on the list. Westfield is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of Westfield.

Westfield undergraduate students pay an average of $17,219 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Westfield State University

Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges by State

Explore the best urban and regional planning colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

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

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 7 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Arcaddmarketing.

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