2022 Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Master’s in Colorado

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 Value Urban Planning Schools for a Master’s in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Colorado, there were 56 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,000 and $44,700 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 56 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

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.

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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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 Master’s in Colorado” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Master’s in Colorado

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Master’s in Colorado.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in Colorado

#1

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$23,915 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$56,189 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Master’s in Colorado. University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is a large public school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 56 masters’s urban planning degrees in 2019-2020.

CU Anschutz did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at CU Anschutz are $23,915, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Urban & Regional Planning at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

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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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