Degree Programs
Our department offers a Master’s of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning (MAURP) degree with several opportunities for students to specialize their program to match their interests and career goals. The department faculty endeavors to organize areas of planning specialization to enhance the program’s curriculum and to increase the department’s research opportunities. The Department offers students the following specializations within the program: Information Technologies for Planning, Transportation and Growth Management, Housing, Community and Economic Development, and Urban Design. Students can choose to follow a generalist planner track, combine two specializations, or complete a specialization in the one of the many graduate certificates offered in the College of Design, Construction and Planning, or other related colleges in the University of Florida. The length of the program is 2 years, or 52 semester credits. Undergraduate students have the option of taking a combined degree that allows them to complete both a bachelor’s and master’s degree within five years.[RS7]
An MAURP degree can be a complement to many other academic programs. Since urban planning is carried out by organizations in the public, private and non-profit sector, an MAURP degree can serve many careers very well. The University of Florida provides a framework for an individual in any master’s program to develop a concurrent degree program with the MAURP. These concurrent master’s programs are developed on an individual basis and must have the written approval of the representative of each academic unit involved and the dean of the Graduate School. Nine credits of coursework from one degree may be applied, with Graduate School approval, toward meeting the requirements of the second degree. The forms required for approval of the concurrent program and petition for acceptance of nine credits of coursework in a second master’s program may be found at https://gradschool.ufl.edu/pdf-files/concurrent-degree-program-form.pdf. The Department encourages students interested in transportation planning to complete a concurrent degree program with the Transportation Engineering program in Civil and Coastal Engineering. Students can complete a joint degree with the Levin College of Law.
Students can also a dual degree [RS8] with undergraduate programs at the University of Florida[RS9] , certificates in Planning and Information Analysis Systems, Historic Preservation or Sustainable Design] , and concurrent degrees with programs throughout the University of Florida.
Our department offers a graduate minor for students from throughout the University of Florida that is designed to allow students from other related disciplines to learn about the basics of the Urban and Regional Planning profession.
