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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning (Income Over $110k) in Pennsylvania

1 Ranked Colleges
3 Degrees Awarded
$41,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Vallue Urban Planning Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Urban Planning Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Urban & Regional Planning is the 170th most popular major in the country with 2,548 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, urban and regional planning graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $48,040 and had an average of $39,156 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 91 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,600 and $71,279 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great urban and regional planning programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Vallue Urban Planning Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Urban Planning Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning (Income Over $110k) in Pennsylvania

#1

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Urban Planning Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Pennsylvania is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 3 doctorate’s urban planning degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UPenn, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Pennsylvania are $41,760.

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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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