2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General in South Carolina

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 Design Major in South Carolina for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Urban & Regional Planning, General is the 264th most popular major in the country with 2,419 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Carolina, there were 22 urban and regional planning, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 urban and regional planning, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,605 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Urban Design Major in South Carolina for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in urban and regional planning, general. To top this list, a school must have a successful urban and regional planning, general program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Urban Design Major in South Carolina for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for south carolina master’s degree urban design students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning, General in South Carolina

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Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina

#1 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Urban Design Major in South Carolina for a Master’s. Clemson University is located in Clemson, South Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s urban design degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

#7 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Charleston. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Urban Design Major in South Carolina for a Master’s list. C of C is a fairly large public school situated in Charleston, South Carolina. It awarded 7 masters’s urban design degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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