Florida State University

Florida State University’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) offers Florida’s oldest and largest planning program, ranked No. 11 among public universities nationally by Planetizen. Our Master of Science in Planning (MSP) program is the top-ranked program in Florida. For more than fifty years, we have been training professional planners to be change agents in their communities, and to use their knowledge and skills to improve the well-being of all citizens.

We are well-known for our award-winning community-engaged work produced through FSU’s Mark and Marianne Barnebey Planning and Development Lab and the high-impact, innovative scholarship of our faculty. We strive to use our research to transform planning practice and planning scholarship.

We provide planning education to a community of master’s students and doctoral students across six specializations:

• AI, Data and Communication in Planning
• Economic Development
• Environmental Planning
• International Planning 
• Neighborhood Planning & Community Development
• Transportation Planning

DURP also offers students the flexibility to develop a self-designed specialization from the vast field of planning. We pride ourselves on our strong record of placing graduates in rewarding jobs in a variety of public, private, and non-profit organizations in more than 40 states and two dozen countries. Our graduates plan locally and globally, and everywhere in between.