2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in Kansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Kansas” 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 Kansas, there were 25 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,499 and $30,950 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the urban and regional planning program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Urban & Regional Planning Schools

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 Kansas” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

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

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

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

#1

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$25,007 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$53,608 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Urban Planning Schools for a Master’s in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school handed out 22 degrees to qualified masters’s urban planning students in 2019-2020.

KU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Degree Schools in Kansas” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kansas are $25,007.

Full University of Kansas Urban & Regional Planning Report

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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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