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Master of Urban and Regional Planning – Institut d'Etudes de Paris at University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Programme overview

In this dual degree program, students receive a Master in Governing the Large Metropolis from the Urban School of Sciences Po in Paris and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the Urban Planning Department at UCLA.

Faculty: Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs  |  Department: Urban Planning  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: Fall  |  Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

What you will study

Areas of study: Students are required to declare an area of concentration. Areas of concentration are fields in which planners characteristically become engaged, professionally or through research. They are not meant to be mutually exclusive. Courses are clustered in the following six areas: Community Economic Development and Housing. This concentration addresses the social and economic forces affecting communities. Within this area, students can choose one of two streams: housing policies and development, or community economic development. Both streams highlight linkages to social, economic, and spatial justice; inequality;

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Application information

Entry requirements

Application deadline: January 15, 2027. GRE: Optional. Letters of recommendation: 3. In addition to the University's minimum requirements and those listed above, all applicants are expected to submit a statement of purpose and all supplemental materials as outlined on the Department of Urban Planning MURP Application Checklist, available on the Luskin School website. This is the only program that grants a dual degree in urban planning in the USA and Europe in the time normally taken to achieve just one degree. The Urban School of Sciences Po (Institut d'Etudes de Paris, Paris) and the Urban Planning Department at UCLA offer this dual master�s degree program, to begin September 2021.

Most graduate departments and schools have deadlines in November and early December for the following fall term.

Graduate application fee: $135 for U.S. citizens and permanent residents, $155 for all other applicants, $200 for the Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Master of Financial Engineering and MS in Business Analytics; nonrefundable, paid by card with the online Application for Graduate Admission.

Executive MBA: rolling admission for fall entry; Round 1 December 1, 2026, Round 2 February 1, 2027, Round 3 May 1, 2027; application fee $200.

Apply through the official page: https://grad.ucla.edu/admissions/steps-to-apply/

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