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Master of Urban and Regional Planning at University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Programme overview

Master of Urban and Regional Planning is a master's programme in Urban Planning, Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. Areas of study: Students are required to declare an area of concentration by the fall quarter of their second year. Areas of concentration are fields in which planners characteristically become engaged, professionally or through research. They are not meant to be mutually exclusive.

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 by the fall quarter of their second year. 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.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Application deadline: December 15, 2026. 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. The statement of purpose (consult the prompt on the MURP Application Checklist), letters of recommendation (at least one academic letter from a faculty member who has taught the applicant, if still relevant;

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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