2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Urban & Regional Planning is the 183rd most popular major in the country with 2,419 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, urban and regional planning graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $51,745 and had an average of $23,296 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 422 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,066 and $27,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in urban and regional planning. That schools that top this list have a program in urban and regional planning in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The urban planning school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region”.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in the Southeast Region

1

Jackson State University
Jackson, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Jackson State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region. Jackson State University is a public institution located in Jackson, Mississippi. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Jackson State

2

Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#23 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Tallahassee, Florida, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s urban planning degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Urban & Regional Planning at Florida State University

3

Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region. Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s urban planning degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus Urban & Regional Planning Report

4

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#6 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southeast Region. UNC Chapel Hill is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s urban planning degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Urban & Regional Planning at UNC Chapel Hill

• Most Focused Doctor’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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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