Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Management
Your planning education will be closely linked to the professional field of planning practice. Through community-based workshop courses, close interaction with planning practitioners, and opportunities for off-campus experiences -- including international exchange programs -- you will be ready to join the diverse professional world of planning, and will leave with a skillset that prepares you to meet some of the world's most pressing challenges.
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Introduces students to basic analytical techniques used to better understand how cities work. Topics include the foundational statistical concepts of data, variation, and inference. Students formulate a research question about an urban studies or planning issue, collect data, use statistical software to analyze data, and communicate the findings.
Introduces students to different career paths open to urban studies and planning majors. Students interact with professionals and take part in hands-on activities related to different concentration areas: sustainability, policy & planning, social justice and global cities.
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Studying urban planning at UIUC means you have access to the resources, facilities, and minds of a global R1 university. It also makes you part of a long tradition—planning has been offered at Illinois since 1912.
Getting involved in planning issues at all levels is easy in Champaign-Urbana. Work with three plan commissions, two city councils, a county board, the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, the Sustainability Advisory Commission, the Community Development Commission, and more!
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Ph.D students
- Max Eisenburger: Economic Development and the Solar Industry. Ph.D. Expected 2019
- Steve Sherman: Policing, Planmaking and Anchor Institutions. Ph.D. Expected 2019
- Ozge Yenigun: Migration, Diversity and Economic Development. Ph.D. Expected 2021.
MUP students
- Adrienne Cooke: Fair Workweek Policies (Spring 2019)
- Tejashree Kulkarni: Workforce Development (Spring 2019)
- Jacob Malmsten: East-Central Illinois Labor Market Profile (Spring 2019)
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Our graduate students have access to a wide variety of world-class facilities, including:
- Studio Spaces
- The Ricker Library of Architecture and Art
- Fabrication and Print (3D) labs
- Computing Resources
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