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2023 Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in Massachusetts

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$42,635 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,203 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning School for You

In 2020-2021, 125 degrees and certificates were awarded to urban and regional planning students who went to a Massachusetts college or university. This makes it the #87 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in Massachusetts to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Massachusetts to see which ones offered the best value programs for urban planning students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Massachusetts

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

Best Massachusetts Schools for Affordable Quality in Urban & Regional Planning

$16,439 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Massachusetts Amherst to be the best value school for urban and regional planning students who want to pursue a degree in Massachusetts. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the suburb of Amherst.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UMass Amherst are $16,439 a year.

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$55,878 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best urban and regional planning schools in Massachusetts. Located in the city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at MIT are $55,878 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, MIT is ranked #1 for overall quality for urban planning in Massachusetts.

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#3

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA
$55,587 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Schools in Massachusetts list. Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Harvard are $55,587 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Harvard is ranked #2 for overall quality for urban planning in Massachusetts.

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Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
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 3 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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