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2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$43,828 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,203 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning School for You

Urban & Regional Planning is the #110 most popular major in the country with 1,613 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in the New England Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for urban planning students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Colleges.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Urban & Regional Planning

$37,355 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Roger Williams University to be the best value school for urban and regional planning students who want to pursue a degree in the New England Region . RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Bristol.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at RWU are $37,355 per year.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Roger Williams University

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a great value for urban and regional planning students. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at MIT are $55,878 per year.

MIT also made our Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region list, coming in at #1.

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#3

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Harvard University is a great value for urban and regional planning students. Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Harvard are $55,587 a year.

Harvard also made our Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region list, coming in at #4.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Harvard University

$33,354 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Rhode Island is a great value for urban and regional planning students. URI is a large public school located in the large suburb of Kingston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at URI are $33,354 per year.

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$36,964 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the # 5 spot on the list. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.

UMass Amherst undergraduate students pay an average of $36,964 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Urban & Regional Planning at University of Massachusetts Amherst Report

Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges by State

Explore the best urban and regional planning colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 125
Rhode Island 9
Maine 9
Vermont 0

Urban & Regional Planning is one of 8 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology 3,366
General Architecture 1,096
Landscape Architecture 285
Real Estate Development 223
Interior Architecture 169

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
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