Planetizen 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs

The Planetizen 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs -- the essential resource for prospective planning students -- is now available.

The Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs is the only comprehensive ranking and listing of graduate urban planning programs available. In its 3rd edition, the guide is exhaustively researched by the staff of Planetizen.

Thousands of students have used the Planetizen Guide to inform their decision about which graduate programs to apply for, and ultimately, attend.

What's New in the 2012 Edition?

We've expanded the Guide yet again with more detailed information about programs to help prospective students make their decision. Along with additional program profiles and rankings, we've refined our data collection process and methodology, and incorporated feedback from planning educators, program administrators and students. All these changes have served to make the 2012 Guide the most useful and comprehensive resource yet.

What's New

• Expanded program profiles section with additional details
• More program profiles included in directory
• Refined rankings methodology that takes into account a larger set of of measures and criteria
• Expanded rankings section

The Planetizen guide has been, and continues to be, an invaluable resource throughout the application process, containing detailed information about graduate programs that I could not find anywhere else.
-James McNally, aspiring planning student

Inside the guide:

Comprehensive Rankings:

• Top 25 Ranked Schools for Urban Planning Programs
• Top Ranked Schools in Your Region
• Best Schools by Specialty (Urban Design, Housing, Preservation, etc.)
• Detailed Profiles of 100+ Schools

Narrow down your graduate program search by:

• Admissions Requirements and Statistics
• Cost of Attendance
• Faculty and Student Demographics
• Research, Internship and Study Abroad Opportunities
• What other students are saying

Hear from:

• Current grad students, with advice on what to look for in a program
• Practicing professionals, revealing what they seek in new applicants
• A planning professor, who explains how to launch your planning career
• Planetizen's editorial staff, on why one would choose a career in urban planning

Features

• Detailed Profiles of 105 Graduate Urban Planning Programs in the U.S. and Canada
• Top 25 Planning Schools (in the U.S.)
• Best Schools by Region (Midwest, Northeast, South, and West)
• Top Programs by Specialty (12 specialty areas)
• Largest and Most Diverse Schools
• Profiles of Planning Students and Professionals
• Advice for Selecting a Planning Program and Applying to Graduate School
• Introduction to Graduate Study in the Field of Urban Planning

Download a sample student profile.
Download a sample professional profile.

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About the Guide

The 344 page Planetizen 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs is an invaluable resource for students who may be evaluating graduate urban planning programs, and as a resource for anyone interested in urban planning education. The Guide will allow readers to compare the different graduate programs in urban planning.

Using data collected during 2009-2011, Planetizen demonstrates some of the relative strengths and qualities of different programs, while making available detailed information about each program so that prospective students can make more informed decisions about selecting a graduate urban planning program.

• Top Schools for Urban Planners

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• About Planetizen
• Introduction
• Editors' Note
• How To Use This Guide
• Becoming a Planner
• So You Want To Be A Planner?
• Planning Professional Profiles
• Launching your Planning Career
• Planning Student Profiles
• The Rankings: The Best Graduate Urban Planning Programs
• Overall Top 25
• Map of Overall Top 25 Programs
• How Planetizen Ranks Schools
• Top 25 According to Educators
• By Geographic Region
• By Specialty
• Additional Rankings
• Additional Listings: Reference Guide
• The Directory: Graduate Urban Planning Programs - Includes profiles of 100 programs in the U.S. and Canada

What People Are Saying

"The Guide will become the Michelin guide for planners!"

-- John Fregonese, Fregonese Calthorpe Associates

"The Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs fills a significant gap in an important market for both future planning students and planning educators. The Guide provides detailed and valuable information about a wide range of graduate planning programs that prospective students can look to as they evaluate their future in planning."

-- Dr. Edward J. Blakely, Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Sydney, Executive Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration for the City of New Orleans

"I'm a huge Planetizen fan. If you're an urban planner like me or someone interested in cities, you'll soon realize it's just about the very best place on the web for anyone who's interested in the development and evolution of our communities, urban centers and regions."

-- Richard Florida, best-selling author of "The Rise of the Creative Class"

Sample Pages

Regional school rankings.


Two sample pages showing detailed information available for selected graduate programs.

Copyright

The Planetizen 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs (ISBN 978-0-9789329-1-6) is published by Planetizen Press.

Copyright 2011 by Urban Insight, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. All content included in this book, such as text, graphics, logos, images, and data compilations is the property of Urban Insight, Inc. or its content suppliers and is protected by United States and international copyright laws.

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