2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General in Pennsylvania

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 2,548 people earned their degree in urban and regional planning, general, making the major the 241st most popular in the United States.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 91 urban and regional planning, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 urban and regional planning, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in urban and regional planning, general. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent urban and regional planning, general programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the urban and regional planning, general program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General in Pennsylvania

#1

Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus

Indiana, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$22,448 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania list. Indiana, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s urban design degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

IUP also took the #2 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The yearly cost to attend IUP is $22,448 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree urban design students.

Full IUP Urban & Regional Planning, General Report

#2

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$23,521 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Temple University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania. Temple is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s urban design degrees to qualified students.

Temple did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. The estimated yearly cost for Temple is $23,521 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree urban design students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning, General at Temple University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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