Urban Planning
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2024, the locations with the highest concentration of Urban Planning degree recipients are Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, and Seattle, WA. In 2024, the locations with a relatively high number of Urban Planning degree recipients are University of Virginia, VA, Prairie View, TX, and California Polytechnic State University, CA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Urban Planning is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Urban Planning and the types of students that study this field. University of Washington-Seattle Campus awards the most degrees in Urban Planning in the US, but Southern California Institute of Architecture and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Urban Planning.
Tuition costs for Urban Planning majors are, on average, $9,206 for in-state public colleges, and $60,720 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Urban Planning programs are Public, 4-year or above institutions (116 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (1,901 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Urban Planning, is Public, 4-year or above (1,901 completions in 2024).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Urban Planning programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
University of Washington-Seattle Campus has the most Urban Planning degree recipients, with 105 degrees awarded in 2024.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Urban Planning.
Out of all institutions that offer Urban Planning programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Southern California Institute of Architecture has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Urban Planning, with 3.32%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Urban Planning by year.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Architecture and Related Services graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Architecture and Related Services majors is $105,023 and the most common occupations are Architects, except landscape and naval, Other designers, and Other managers.
The industry that employs the most Architecture and Related Services majors is Architectural, engineering & related services, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers.
The average salary for Architecture and Related Services majors is $105,023 and the most common occupations are Architects, except landscape and naval, Other designers, and Other managers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Architecture and Related Services majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Architecture and Related Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Architecture and Related Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations for Architecture and Related Services majors, by number of employees, are Architects, except landscape and naval, Other designers, and Other managers.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Architecture and Related Services majors working as Architects, except naval, Urban & regional planners, and Drafters.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Architecture and Related Services majors are Surgeons, Power plant operators, distributors, & dispatchers, and Bakers.
The number of Architecture and Related Services graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.52%, from 418,622 in 2023 to 433,347 in 2024.
The largest single share of Architecture and Related Services graduates go on to work as Architects, except landscape and naval (26.9%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Architecture and Related Services by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Architecture and Related Services majors, by number of employees, are Architectural, engineering & related services, Construction, and Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges.
The highest paying industries of Architecture and Related Services majors, by average wage, are Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers, Not specified utilities, and Internet publishing, broadcasting & web search portals.
The number of Architecture and Related Services graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.52%, from 418,622 in 2023 to 433,347 in 2024.
The industry which employs the most Architecture and Related Services graduates by share is Architectural, engineering & related services, followed by Construction. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Architecture and Related Services.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Architecture and Related Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Architecture and Related Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Architecture and Related Services in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Architecture and Related Services is 44.6.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Masters Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Architecture and Related Services degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Architecture and Related Services (1,184 students).
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Architecture and Related Services. The most common ages of employees with this major are 34 and 33 years old, which represent 2.93% and 2.8% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Urban Planning are Masters Degree, Bachelors Degree, and Postbaccalaureate Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Architecture and Related Services are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Urban Planning.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Urban Planning for each race & ethnicity.
In 2024, White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Masters Degree recipients in Urban Planning.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Iran that hold Architecture and Related Services degrees (3.29 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (9,509 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Urban Planning field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Urban Planning majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Urban Planning majors need more than the average amount of Management of Financial Resources, Operations Analysis, and Systems Analysis.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Urban Planning majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Management of Financial Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.
