by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in Missouri” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 2,419 people earned their degree in urban and regional planning, making the major the 183rd most popular in the United States. 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 Missouri, there were 23 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in Missouri” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in Missouri”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Missouri - Kansas City. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in Missouri. This fairly large school is located in Kansas City, Missouri, and it awarded 9 ’s urban planning degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Louis University landed the #2 spot on the list. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 5 ’s urban planning degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Urban & Regional Planning at Saint Louis University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri State University - Springfield landed the #3 spot on the list. Missouri State University - Springfield is a large public school situated in Springfield, Missouri. It awarded 9 ’s urban planning degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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