Best Urban & Regional Planning Doctor’s Degree Colleges in California

Unfortunately, there were no schools in California that made our Best Urban & Regional Planning Doctor's Degree Schools in California 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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

Insufficient Data for California

As a result of missing data, we were not able to show you the urban & regional planning quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in California that both offer urban & regional planning and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, look at at some of our other Urban & Regional Planning rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning ranking.

Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Urban & Regional Planning Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	122	1
Hawaii	53	2

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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	22

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Architecture	8

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).
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