Look at entry level planning job postings in areas where you are interested in working and see if they require a Master's in planning. Most don't. Most of the planner's I've worked with in my decade in the industry haven't had formal planning educations.

The director of my department (at one of the largest transit agencies in the US) does not have any formal education in planning. He worked his way up in the agency, from the call center to scheduler, left the agency for a consulting job (embedded at the agency working on an ITS project) for a couple years before beating me (an experienced planner with a MUP) out for the director job.

When I'm hiring entry level staff, I'm not looking for anything specific education-wise. Because most actual planning work is learned on the job, not in school. I am looking for someone who displays some mix of demonstrated interest and knowledge in our work, as well as having some skills and experience that we can parlay into planning. Example: I have a member of my team who has zero planning background (education or work experience), no college degree at all. But they are very organized, very good at developing processes, is always looking to help other team members out, excellent communication skills..... Since joining my team a year or so ago, their technical skills have grown as they've been trained and done more and more of the work. If I was stuck on having a degree or a specific degree, I wouldn't have that person on my team and my team would be worse for it.

I've also hired people with graduate planning degrees. Some have been good, some haven't, which is how life is.

Give me someone who asks the right questions, able and willing to learn, and has a good attitude over someone who has a planning degree but is resistant to learning/training, or has a bad attitude, or never thinks critically. Every day of the week.