Guide to Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning 18th Edition - 2012 www.acsp.org This GUIDE was prepared as a public service by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), a consortium of university based programs offering degrees and credentials in urban and regional planning. ACSP hopes to encourage a wide range of high school and undergraduate students to consider a rewarding and challenging career in planning. ACSP promotes education, research, service, and outreach in the United States and throughout the world by seeking to: • recognize diverse needs and interests in planning; • strengthen the role of planning education in colleges and universities through publications, conferences, and community engagement; • improve and enhance the accreditation process, and; • extend planning beyond the classroom into the world of practice. If you are interested in a career in which you can help your community, influence the direction of growth and change, and build a better future, you should read this GUIDE. OBJECTIVES This GUIDE is designed to show you: • how fulfilling a career in planning might be; • the wide variety of jobs which urban and regional planners do; • the kind of education and training you need to become a planner; • the range of universities which offer planning education and training; and • how you might choose a university planning program matched to your interests and needs. IS PLANNING THE CAREER FOR ME? • Are you interested in positive social, economic, environmental, and physical change? • Do you want to work with people from various backgrounds to develop a better community? • Do you like to communicate with others about ideas, programs and plans? • Are you challenged by complex problems and excited about being part of a cooperative process to devise solutions to those problems? • Do you think about the future?About what could be rather than about what is? If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, you should seriously consider becoming a planner! TABLE OF CONTENTS WHAT DO PLANNERS DO?...................................................................................................................... -i- PLANNING SPECIALIZATIONS ............................................................................................................. -ii- LAND USE PLANNING ............................................................................................................... -ii- ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING ................................................................................................. -ii- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING . .............................................................................. -ii- TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ................................................................................................ -ii- HOUSING, SOCIAL, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ................................ -iii- OTHER IMPORTANT PLANNING JOBS .......................................................................................... -iii- WILL I GET A JOB? .................................................................................................................................... -iii- HOW CAN I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT PLANNING? ...............................................................-iv- A PLANNER’S EDUCATION ....................................................................................................................-vi- HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST PLANNING PROGRAM ...........................................................-vii- HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE ...................................................................................................................-viii- LISTINGS BY SCHOOL ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY ...................................................................................................................... 1 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ......................................................................................................................3 AUBURN UNIVERSITY ...................................................................................................................................7 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY ..............................................................................................................................9 BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ..........................................................................................................................12 BOSTON UNIVERSITY ..................................................................................................................................14 CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO ...................................................17 CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA .................................................................21 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE ....................................................................................24 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA .............................................................................................27 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY ...............................................................................................................................29 CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY ...............................................................................................................33 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY .............................................................................................................................35 CORNELL UNIVERSITY ................................................................................................................................39 EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY ...................................................................................................................44 LISTINGS BY SCHOOL cont’d EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY ............................................................................................................45 EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY .....................................................................................................47 FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY ............................................................................................................ 50 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY .....................................................................................................................53 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY .......................................................................................................56 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY .................................................................................................. 57 HARVARD UNIVERSITY ...............................................................................................................................61 INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA .............................................................................................. 65 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY ...........................................................................................................................67 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ......................................................................................................................70 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................72 MCGILL UNIVERSITY ...................................................................................................................................78 MIAMI UNIVERSITY .....................................................................................................................................80 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY..................................................................................................................82 MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, MANKATO ..........................................................................................85 MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY ...................................................................................................................87 MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ....................................................................................................................88 NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................90 THE NEW SCHOOL ......................................................................................................................................93 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY .............................................................................................................................95 NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY ..........................................................................................................98 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY .........................................................................................................................101 PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY ...............................................................................................................105 Pratt INSTITUTE ......................................................................................................................................109 RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY .........................................................................116 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF Environmental AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES .................. 120 RYERSON UNIVERSITY ..............................................................................................................................121