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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s in Alabama” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Alabama, there were 32 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

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

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

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

#1

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$31,956 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Master’s in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s urban planning degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

Auburn also took the #1 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Auburn University are $31,956, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Auburn University

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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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