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Most Popular Schools for City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply principles of planning, analysis, and architecture to the development and improvement of urban areas and surrounding regions, and to function as professional planners. Includes instruction in principles of architecture; master plan development; service, communications, and transportation systems design; community and commercial development; zoning; land use planning; applied economics; policy analysis; applicable laws and regulations; and professional responsibilities and managerial duties.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of Southern California 107 1% $74,825
2 Arizona State University-Tempe 101 1% $28,048
3 University of Arizona 85 1% $29,217
4 Ohio State University-Main Campus 82 1% $27,367
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 3% $70,240
6 Cornell University 75 1% $73,904
7 University of California-Davis 70 1% $35,177
8 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 70 1% $27,638
9 University of California-Los Angeles 63 1% $34,620
10 Texas A & M University-College Station 56 0% $29,506
11 University of Virginia-Main Campus 55 1% $33,493
12 University of Illinois at Chicago 54 1% $30,866
13 University of California-Berkeley 50 0% $38,066
14 University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus 50 1% $29,357
15 Columbia University in the City of New York 50 0% $76,856
16 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 49 1% $28,891
17 Harvard University 48 1% $71,650
18 Pratt Institute-Main 48 3% $67,742
19 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 47 0% $30,102
20 The University of Texas at Austin 46 0% $26,506
21 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 42 1% $28,776
22 Arizona State University-Skysong 42 1% $27,521
23 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 40 0% $27,898
24 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 40 1% $23,811
25 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 39 1% $28,302
26 New York University 38 0% $73,566
27 Florida Atlantic University 35 0% $24,235
28 University at Buffalo 33 0% $27,758
29 University of Florida 33 0% $21,211
30 Ball State University 31 1% $24,550
31 Florida State University 28 0% $22,168
32 Iowa State University 26 0% $21,186
33 San Jose State University 26 0% $29,193
34 University of California-Irvine 26 0% $34,261
35 Portland State University 25 0% $26,085
36 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 25 0% $27,476
37 The University of Texas at Arlington 24 0% $26,660
38 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 22 0% $26,834
39 Clemson University 22 0% $31,270
40 University of Miami 22 0% $68,460
41 Georgetown University 22 0% $73,840
42 University of Oregon 21 0% $27,366
43 University of Kansas 20 0% $26,566
44 University of South Florida-Main Campus 19 0% $23,320
45 Texas State University 18 0% $23,130
46 Michigan State University 17 0% $28,862
47 Eastern Washington University 17 1% $23,011
48 Temple University 17 0% $33,004
49 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 17 0% $24,486
50 California State University-Northridge 16 0% $22,969
51 West Chester University of Pennsylvania 16 0% $27,074
52 Boston University 16 0% $72,618
53 University of Wisconsin-Madison 16 0% $26,025
54 CUNY City College 14 0% $29,967
55 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 14 0% $22,639
56 The New School 14 0% $71,361
57 Alabama A & M University 13 2% $23,462
58 Auburn University 13 0% $31,590
59 University of New Orleans 12 1% $25,223
60 University of Memphis 12 0% $25,423
61 Miami University-Oxford 12 0% $33,229
62 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 12 0% $29,097
63 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 12 0% $23,694
64 George Washington University 12 0% $71,930
65 SUNY at Albany 11 0% $26,734
66 University of Central Florida 11 0% $22,548
67 University of Louisville 11 0% $27,980
68 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 11 0% $24,936
69 University of Georgia 11 0% $26,688
70 The University of Texas at San Antonio 11 0% $23,715
71 Missouri State University-Springfield 10 0% $21,782
72 San Diego State University 9 0% $29,318
73 Westfield State University 9 1% $25,120
74 Eastern Michigan University 9 0% $26,196
75 Haverford College 9 3% $73,902
76 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 9 0% $30,913
77 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 9 0% $33,750
78 University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 9 0% $19,876
79 University of Washington-Tacoma Campus 9 1% $26,978
80 Wayne State University 8 0% $27,157
81 Prairie View A & M University 8 1% $24,847
82 Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus 8 0% $28,595
83 University of Hawaii at Manoa 8 0% $29,858
84 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 8 0% $32,443
85 University of Pennsylvania 7 0% $74,408
86 Lawrence Technological University 7 1% $49,428
87 University of Massachusetts-Boston 7 0% $36,647
88 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 0% $24,116
89 Carnegie Mellon University 6 0% $72,283
90 Minnesota State University-Mankato 5 0% $20,482
91 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Cupey Campus 5 0% $7,520
92 New Jersey Institute of Technology 5 0% $37,738
93 East Carolina University 5 0% $21,672
94 Frostburg State University 4 0% $23,810
95 Morgan State University 4 0% $24,101
96 University of Idaho 4 0% $21,350
97 Plymouth State University 4 0% $28,950
98 Rowan University 4 0% $32,099
99 University of Rhode Island 4 0% $30,351
100 Northland College 4 3% $48,809

This list indicates the number of students that completed the City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.