Master's of Urban and Regional Planning
Dual degree, M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering/Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Ph.D. in Planning, Policy, and Design
Students from any major can benefit from minoring in urban and regional planning. Social scientists will learn public management and community organizing. Engineers will learn about urban infrastructure systems, including water supply and transportation. Humanities majors will discover that planning thought draws heavily on critical analyses of race, class, and ethnicity. Science majors will find that planners apply knowledge of statistics, engineering, and environmental systems to solve complex problems.
The field of urban studies investigates cities and urban life in their physical, environmental, social, economic, and political manifestations. It explores the causes, prevalence, and consequences of urban challenges and considers the theory and practice of addressing such challenges. Its subjects range in scale from global social inequalities to the local and personal ramifications of neighborhood design.
Master's of Urban and Regional Planning
Prospective graduate students from all backgrounds, including humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, natural sciences, architecture and engineering, are welcome to apply to the MURP program. Minimum admission standards normally include a cumulative undergraduate G.P.A. of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale and a promising performance on the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE).
Dual degree, M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering/Master of Urban and Regional Planning
The Department of Planning, Policy, and Design and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering offer a concurrent degree program that allows students to earn both a master's in Urban and Regional Planning and master's in Civil Engineering. The concurrent degree program requires 72 units of study. In urban and regional planning, the student must complete 10 core courses and eight electives. In Engineering the program is organized around two tracks: (1) transportation systems, and (2) environmental hydrology and water resources. The program core comprises 15 graduate courses for the transportation systems track, and 13 graduate and two undergraduate courses for the environmental hydrology and water resources track.
Ph.D. in Planning, Policy, and Design
The Ph.D. program admits qualified students with a bachelor's or master's degree from a variety of social science, humanities, and physical science disciplines or from professional fields, including planning, policy, and design. Students who are admitted have a strong background in at least one of the academic disciplines related to urban planning, public policy, or design-behavior research and a demonstrated fit with existing faculty research interests and expertise.