by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Urban Planning Major in Michigan for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Michigan, there were 35 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,154 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 urban and regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,121 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Urban Planning Major in Michigan for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in urban and regional planning. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular urban and regional planning programs in the United States.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for michigan master’s degree urban planning students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Urban Planning Major in Michigan for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 masters’s urban planning degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Wayne State
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Urban Planning Major in Michigan for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s urban planning degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Eastern Michigan
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Urban Planning Major in Michigan for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Lawrence Technological University landed the #3 spot on the list. Lawrence Technological University is located in Southfield, Michigan and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s urban planning degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Urban & Regional Planning at Lawrence Technological University
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Urban Planning Major in Michigan for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in East Lansing, Michigan, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s urban planning students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Michigan State University Urban & Regional Planning Report
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