2022 Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 2,548 people earned their degree in urban and regional planning, making the major the 170th most popular in the United States. 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 the Southeast region, there were 439 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,800 and $39,293 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 55 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in urban and regional planning. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality urban and regional planning programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in the Southeast Region

#1

Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$10,186 Average Net Price

$44,170 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Atlantic University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. FAU is a large school located in Boca Raton, Florida that handed out 24 bachelors’s urban planning degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at FAU, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend FAU is $10,186 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Planning students.

Full Florida Atlantic University Urban & Regional Planning Report

#2

University of Virginia - Main Campus

Charlottesville, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$20,397 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Virginia is a large school located in Charlottesville, Virginia that handed out 11 bachelors’s urban planning degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Virginia, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Virginia is $20,397 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Planning students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Virginia Urban & Regional Planning Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning

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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