Best Urban & Regional Planning Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Urban & Regional Planning Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Urban & Regional Planning School for Your Doctor's Degree

The urban planning doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on urban & regional planning students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other urban & regional planning students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for urban & regional planning to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized urban & regional planning related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for urban & regional planning students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Because of lacking data, we couldn't show you the urban & regional planning quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer urban & regional planning and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Urban & Regional Planning by Region

View the Best Urban & Regional Planning Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Urban Planning

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

Urban Planning Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Urban & Regional Planning, General	93

Majors Similar to Urban Planning

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Architecture	90
Architectural Sciences & Technology	42
Environmental Design	25
Landscape Architecture	2

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Arcaddmarketing. More about our data sources and methodologies.