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213 Master's degrees in Urban Planning in United States
Urban Planning
Urban Planning from Wayne State University is a professionally-oriented degree that focuses on the preparation of planners who will be employed primarily by local governments, planning consultants and community-based organizations.
Urban Design
The studio-based curriculum of Urban Design master's program from Carnegie Mellon University allows students to explore design strategies in a variety of scales and settings, from the post-industrial city to the suburban periphery to the dense global metropolis.

Urban Planning and Policy
Learn to lead transformative change in neighborhoods, communities, cities, towns, and regions in the Urban Planning and Policy program from Northeastern University. Seeking place-based solutions, you’ll learn to manage today’s most urgent environmental, social, and political challenges.
Urban Development and Sustainability
Urban development and sustainability are among the hottest buzzwords in public service today. We offer a Urban Development and Sustainability degree at Baruch College.
Architecture and Urban Planning
The Architecture and Urban Planning programme at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee is a coordinated dual Master’s degree. This on-campus track allows students to earn both an MArch and an MUP simultaneously. Depending on your academic background, this intensive full-time programme typically spans three to four years.
Sustainable Smart Cities
The Sustainable Smart Cities Master's program from The University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) and Staffordshire University (UK) is a unique professional postgraduate program that provides an interdisciplinary grounding in the principles, application, and key technologies required to develop sustainable smart cities.
Urban Design
The Urban Design Postgraduate Certificate from Portland State University, a joint effort of the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and the School of Architecture, has been created to offer planners, designers, and architects the opportunity to engage and incorporate in their own work the principles and methods of urban design.
Community Development and Planning
In this Community Development and Planning program offered by the Clark University you will learn about the power structures that shape community spaces, and how to create processes in which community members have a say in those power structures.
Master of Business Administration, Master of Urban Planning
The Master of Business Administration, Master of Urban Planning program at University of Southern California is designed to provide those who have completed a traditional M.B.A. with an opportunity to pursue further study in an area of specialization subsequent to successfully completing the Master of Business Administration.
Community Planning
The Master of Arts in Community Planning degree from University of Washington is designed to develop civic leaders who are equipped to make change in networks of public and private actors, helping to create more just, sustainable, and livable urban futures.
Community Planning and Information Management
To realize the promise of smart cities to improve the quality of life for residents requires changes in the information infrastructure, the social infrastructure, and the physical infrastructure. This Community Planning and Information Management program at University of Maryland is made to fill this urgent need.
City and Regional Planning and Civil Engineering
The internal dual City and Regional Planning and Civil Engineering program at Georgia Institute of Technology seeks to educate those who wish to engage directly in the process of city building. The program is intended to meet the needs of planning agencies, consultants, institutions, and architectural firms for graduates who can deal competently with the design complexities of urban areas.
Urban Planning
The Urban Planning program of the University at Buffalo is built around practice-based learning and research that tackles every urban planning challenge you can imagine.
Sustainable Urban Environments
Northeastern University’s Master of Design for Sustainable Urban Environments brings together the allied professional fields of environmental design, landscape architecture, and urban planning. The program offers advanced study and research opportunities in the design of ecologically and economically productive urban environments.
City Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's City Planning provides graduate professional education for individuals who will assume planning roles in public, private, and nonprofit agencies, firms, and international institutions, in the United States and abroad.
Policy Studies
The Policy Studies program of the University of Washington Bothell offers an interdisciplinary, evidence-based approach to the study of how policy interventions can serve the public good, advise public decisions, and advance social change.
Urban Revitalization
The Certificate in Urban Revitalization from Virginia Commonwealth University provides specialized training in the techniques and processes of city and neighbourhood revitalization.
City and Regional Planning (dual degree)
The City and Regional Planning (dual degree) offered at Cornell University, is a professionally accredited degree intended for students with an interest in both planning and design issues.
Urban Planning
The Urban Planning program at California State University Northridge provides a broad-based education in urban planning, especially as it is practiced in the State of California, where a wide range of state laws and mandates have created a planning environment that is distinct from its practice in much of the rest of the United States.
Urban and Environmental Planning
The Urban and Environmental Planning MUEP program from Arizona State University is ranked among the top in the nation, because we prepare students to enter the workforce, impact their communities and become leaders in the planning profession.