2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General in Massachusetts

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 for a Master’s in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Massachusetts, there were 202 urban and regional planning, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 133 urban and regional planning, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in urban and regional planning, general. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality urban and regional planning, general programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the urban and regional planning, general program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts master’s degree urban design students.

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

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$50,654 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts list. Harvard University is a large school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 45 masters’s urban design degrees in 2019-2020.

Harvard not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard are $50,654, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Harvard Urban & Regional Planning, General Report

#2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$56,719 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Urban Design Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s urban design degrees to 49 students in 2019-2020.

MIT also took the #1 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at MIT are $56,719.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning, General at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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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