Master’s Degree in Regional and Community Planning
Enhance the quality of life for cities and communities by addressing challenges related to resource conservation, growing populations and changing technologies.
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Master’s Degree in Regional and Community Planning
Master of Regional and Community Planning
Regional and community planners remake cities into dynamic places to live, work and play. Their work makes a difference in the lives of people, ensuring that communities and regions are prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities they face.
Students in the Master of Regional and Community Planning program learn how to build vibrant, resilient cities with physical plans and strategic policies. City planners link businesses, schools and neighborhoods with pedestrian, bicycle, vehicular and mass transit systems. They create local zoning and planning policies that support shared-based mobility and transit-oriented development.
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APDesign students work alongside their peers in all design and planning disciplines. You will not only design and plan, but also build and fabricate.
As a student at one of the most affordable and highly-regarded programs in the nation, you will receive an educational experience preparing you for excellence in your chosen career path.
Did you know?
Our alumni led a team of engineers, pilots and psychologists to plan the airspace over the United States
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