2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in the Rocky Mountains Region

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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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 51 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,153 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 51 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in urban and regional planning. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in urban and regional planning.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree urban planning students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado

#18 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

$53,153 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s urban planning degrees to 47 students 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%.

Read more about Urban & Regional Planning at CU Anschutz

2

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#21 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Idaho. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. University of Idaho is a fairly large public school situated in Moscow, Idaho. It awarded 4 masters’s urban planning degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Idaho Urban & Regional Planning Report

• Most Focused Master’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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