2024 Best Value Urban Design Schools in Ohio

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Urban Design Schools in Ohio” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Urban & Regional Planning, General is the 264th most popular major in the country with 2,419 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Ohio, there were 130 urban & regional planning, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Urban Design Schools in Ohio” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in urban & regional planning, general. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great urban & regional planning, general programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the urban & 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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Best Value Urban Design Schools in Ohio

The colleges and universities below are the best for ohio urban design students.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General in Ohio

1

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$16,845 Average Net Price

$49,871 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Urban Design Schools in Ohio list. Ohio State University - Main Campus is a public institution located in Columbus, Ohio. The school has a large population, and it awarded 75 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Ohio State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Schools in Ohio” list. It costs about $16,845 for Ohio Urban Design students per year to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Urban & Regional Planning, General at Ohio State

2

University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
Cincinnati, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$22,415 Average Net Price

$49,016 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2024 Best Value Urban Design Schools in Ohio list. UC is located in Cincinnati, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 29 ’s urban design degrees to qualified students.

UC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Schools in Ohio” list. It costs about $22,415 for Ohio Urban Design students per year to attend UC.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning, General at UC

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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%.

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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