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2023 Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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Finding the Best Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in the New England Region to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs 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.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for urban planning majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Our analysis found Harvard University to be the most popular school for urban and regional planning students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the New England Region . Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge.

Of the 22 students majoring in urban planning at Harvard, 68% are male and 32% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Urban & Regional Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. URI is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Kingston.

Women make up 50% of the urban planning majors at the school.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at Roger Williams University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular urban and regional planning schools in the New England Region . RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Bristol.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at University of Southern Maine helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular urban and regional planning schools in the New England Region . Located in the city of Portland, University of Southern Maine is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at University of Southern Maine

#4

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

The in-demand graduate certificate programs at University of Vermont helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular urban and regional planning schools in the New England Region . UVM is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Burlington.

Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at University of Vermont

Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges by State

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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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