2024 Best Urban & Regional Planning Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

a master's degree in urban & regional planning is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #92 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Urban & Regional Planning Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 92 master's degrees in urban & regional planning during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to urban & regional planning students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other urban & regional planning students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for urban & regional planning to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized urban & regional planning related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for urban & regional planning students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Urban & Regional Planning Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Urban & Regional Planning Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

 

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Urban & Regional Planning in Massachusetts

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in urban & regional planning.

Top Massachusetts Schools for a Master's in Urban Planning

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

45 Annual Graduates

$69,345 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in urban & regional planning has to look into Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge.

Master's recipients from the urban & regional planning degree program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology make $2,259 more than the standard college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

More information about a master’s in urban & regional planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA

21 Annual Graduates

University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in urban & regional planning. UMass Amherst is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Amherst.More information about a master’s in urban & regional planning from University of Massachusetts Amherst

Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Maine	90	9

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Urban & Regional Planning Related Rankings by Major

Urban & Regional Planning is one of 8 different types of Architecture & Related Services programs to choose from.

Urban Planning Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Urban & Regional Planning, General	92

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology	344
Real Estate Development	38
Interior Architecture	22
Landscape Architecture	22
General Architecture	17
Environmental Design	13
Architectural History	12

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).
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