2024 Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Schools in the New England Region
4Colleges in the New England Region
179Urban Design Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in urban & regional planning, general, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #264 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for urban & regional planning, general students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 179 degrees in urban & regional planning, general to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Urban & Regional Planning, General School
Your choice of urban & regional planning, general school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Urban & Regional Planning, General School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Urban & Regional Planning, General Degree Level
The urban design school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Urban & Regional Planning, General Schools in the New England Region.
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Best Schools for Urban & Regional Planning, General in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of urban design degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in urban & regional planning, general has to check out Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Cambridge. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were about 59 urban & regional planning, general students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Yale University if you wish to pursue a degree in urban & regional planning, general. Yale is a large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of New Haven. A Best Colleges rank of #8 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Yale is a great university overall.
There were about 5 urban & regional planning, general students who graduated with this degree at Yale in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat University of Massachusetts Amherst if you wish to pursue a degree in urban & regional planning, general. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Amherst. This university ranks 11th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 22 urban & regional planning, general students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Westfield State University if you wish to pursue a degree in urban & regional planning, general. Westfield is a small public university located in the suburb of Westfield. This university ranks 33rd out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 9 urban & regional planning, general students who graduated with this degree at Westfield in the most recent year we have data available.
Urban & Regional Planning, General is one of 0 different types of Urban & Regional Planning programs to choose from.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).