2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Land Use Planning & Management/Development
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Land Use Planning and Management/Development Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Land Use Planning & Management/Development is the 1060th most popular major in the country with 102 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 land use planning & management/development graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Land Use Planning and Management/Development Major” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in land use planning & management/development. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in land use planning & management/development.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Land Use Planning and Management/Development Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree land use planning and management/development students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Land Use Planning & Management/Development
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Land Use Planning and Management/Development Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Montana State University is a fairly large school located in Bozeman, Montana that handed out 28 masters’s land use planning and management/development degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Land Use Planning & Management/Development at Montana State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - College Park. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Land Use Planning and Management/Development Major. University of Maryland - College Park is a large public school situated in College Park, Maryland. It awarded 11 masters’s land use planning and management/development degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full UMCP Land Use Planning & Management/Development Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Land Use Planning and Management/Development Major. Logan, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s land use planning and management/development degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Land Use Planning & Management/Development at USU
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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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