2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$39,668
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Urban & Regional Planning is the 183rd most popular major in the country with 2,193 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , urban & regional planning graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $51,745 and had an average of $34,928 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 447 urban & regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,354 and $24,177 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 262 urban & regional planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in urban & regional planning. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in urban & regional planning.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree urban planning students.
Top 7 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban & Regional Planning in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Skysong is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 92 bachelors’s urban planning degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at ASU - Skysong
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region. University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 50 bachelors’s urban planning degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at University of Arizona
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 61 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s urban planning students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Full ASU - Tempe Urban & Regional Planning Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s urban planning degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, 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 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Texas A&M University - College Station
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region. San Marcos, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s urban planning degrees to 14 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at Texas State
University of North Texas landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s urban planning students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at University of North Texas
New Mexico State University - Main Campus came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Urban Planning Major in the Southwest Region ranking. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 0 bachelors’s urban planning degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% 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%.
Read full report on Urban & Regional Planning at NMSU Main Campus
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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
- *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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