2023 Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools
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.
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The Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 110 schools in the United States to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Urban & Regional Planning program at each school on the list.
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2023 Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the United States
The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Colleges.
Top 15% Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools
Our 2023 rankings named University of California - Los Angeles the most popular school in the United States for urban and regional planning students. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public college with a very large student population.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools list. USC is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.
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The excellent programs at Columbia University in the City of New York helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best urban and regional planning schools in the United States. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New York.
The excellent programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best urban and regional planning schools in the United States. MIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.
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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a great place for urban and regional planning students. UW Seattle is a very large public school located in the large city of Seattle.
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University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools list. CU Anschutz is a very large public school located in the large city of Denver.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked #7 on this year’s Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools list. Located in the city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public college with a very large student population.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
New York University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for urban and regional planning students. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the large city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
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Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for urban and regional planning students. It came in at #9 on the list. Georgia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Atlanta.
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With a ranking of #10, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for urban and regional planning students. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public school located in the city of Minneapolis.
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University of Virginia - Main Campus ranked #11 on this year’s Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools list. University of Virginia is a fairly large public school located in the small suburb of Charlottesville.
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Cornell University ranked #11 on this year’s Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools list. Located in the city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
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University of California - Irvine ranked #13 on this year’s Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools list. Located in the city of Irvine, UC Irvine is a public college with a fairly large student population.
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Ohio State University - Main Campus came in at #14 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools ranking. Located in the large city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public school with a fairly large student population.
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Florida State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for urban and regional planning students. It came in at #15 on the list. Florida State is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee.
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With a ranking of #15, University of Florida did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for urban and regional planning students. Located in the city of Gainesville, UF is a public school with a fairly large student population.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at University of Florida
Additional Noteworthy Schools
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also popular but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Schools award.
| Rank | College | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | San Jose State University | San Jose, CA |
| 17 | Texas A&M University - College Station | College Station, TX |
| 19 | Pratt Institute - Main | Brooklyn, NY |
| 19 | Portland State University | Portland, OR |
| 21 | University at Buffalo | Buffalo, NY |
| 22 | Arizona State University - Tempe | Tempe, AZ |
| 22 | University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL |
Urban & Regional Planning by Region
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Urban & Regional Planning Related Majors
One of 8 majors within the area of study, urban and regional planning has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 25 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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