Best Urban & Regional Planning Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

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

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to urban & regional planning students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of urban & regional planning students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt urban & regional planning students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 Southwest Region

Unfortunately , we did not have sufficient facts to produce a ranking of the quality schools for urban & regional planning in the Southwest Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer urban & regional planning and provided enough information for us to do a proper 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 by State

Explore the best urban & regional planning schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	165	9
Arizona	119	1

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Urban & Regional Planning Related Rankings by Major

One of 8 majors within the Architecture & Related Services area of study, Urban & Regional Planning has other similar majors worth exploring.

Urban Planning Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Urban & Regional Planning, General	16

Majors Similar to Urban Planning

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Architecture	13
Environmental Design	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).
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