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2022 Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

6 Ranked Colleges
311 Degrees Awarded
$15,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Urban & Regional Planning, General is the 241st most popular major in the country with 2,548 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 487 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 311 urban and regional planning, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in urban and regional planning, general. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great urban and regional planning, general programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the urban and regional planning, general program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General in the Southwest Region

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the #1 spot on the list. Scottsdale, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s urban design degrees to 75 students in 2019-2020.

ASU - Skysong did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Arizona State University - Skysong is $13,971 for southwest region bachelor’s degree urban design students.

Full ASU - Skysong Urban & Regional Planning, General Report

#2

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas State University is a public institution located in San Marcos, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree urban design students list, Texas State has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas State is $15,230 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Design students.

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#6 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the #3 spot on the list. UNT is a large public school situated in Denton, Texas. It awarded 1 bachelors’s urban design degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree urban design students list, UNT has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $15,086 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Design students per year to attend University of North Texas.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 80 degrees to qualified bachelors’s urban design students in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend ASU - Tempe is $11,706 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Design students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Urban & Regional Planning, General at Arizona State University - Tempe

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #5 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 54 bachelors’s urban design degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station also made our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $19,057 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Design students per year to attend Texas A&M University - College Station.

The low student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

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

#6

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona
#2 in overall quality

University of Arizona did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 79 degrees to qualified bachelors’s urban design students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Arizona, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $15,016 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Design students per year to attend University of Arizona.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full University of Arizona Urban & Regional Planning, General Report

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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%.

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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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