2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in Pennsylvania

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in urban and regional planning. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent urban and regional planning programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the urban and regional planning program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree urban planning students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in Pennsylvania

#1

Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus

Indiana, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$22,448 Average Net Price

$33,993 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Indiana, Pennsylvania, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s urban planning students in 2019-2020.

IUP also took the #2 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus is $22,448 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree urban planning students.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at IUP

#2

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$23,521 Average Net Price

$23,351 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s urban planning degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Temple also took the #1 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Temple University is $23,521 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Urban Planning students.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Urban & Regional Planning at Temple

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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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