Graduate programs

With over half of the world’s population now living in urban areas, the challenge of creating and maintaining urban places as high quality, healthy, vital places for people has never been more important. Our expectation is that recipients of the graduate degrees and certificates offered by the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning will be in the forefront of those efforts, contributing professional leadership and new knowledge in support of this first “urban century”.

Graduate assistantships

Admission requirements

Master of Urban and Regional Planning (M.U.R.P.)

M.S. in Real Estate (M.S.R.E.)

Master of Urban Studies (M.U.S.) (Not accepting new students)

Urban Studies Ph.D. (Not accepting new students)

Urban Studies—Regional Science Ph.D. (Not accepting new students)

Program Rules

M.S. in Real Estate (M.S.R.E.)

The M.S. in Real Estate (MSRE) is a professional degree, training students in the areas of real estate development within the context provided by principles of sustainability, social equity, and community-based development. By its nature, real estate education is multi-disciplinary, involving finance, urban planning, architecture, law, engineering, design, appraisal, and other disciplines. To deliver this education, the MSRE degree is a joint degree of the School of Business Administration and the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning.

The objective for this program is to provide a unique and exceptional graduate degree that will enable students to assist in the development and management of property with an understanding of the role that such development plays in the context of broader community concerns and history, and in the context of the surrounding neighborhood and city. Students will work closely with high-level industry professionals in their classes and workshops.

The MSRE degree is designed to accommodate students with a wide variety of undergraduate degrees and is best suited for students who have gained at least two years of industry experience prior to their admission date. The program is designed to be completed in two years on a part-time basis or one year on a full-time basis. Full-time students are admitted for fall term only. Students will develop their skills in three areas: sustainable urban development, finance and policy, and project development, leading to the Real Estate Development Workshop culminating experience. The degree requirements are listed in the School of Business Administration.