Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning

Overview

Director: Charles Connerly
Admissions Director: Suzanne Cowdery

Graduate Program in Urban & Regional Planning
347 Jessup Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1316
Office 319-335-0032
Admissions Director 319-335-0041
Toll-free: 1-800-553-IOWA (4692), ext. 5-0032 or ext. 5-0041
Fax: 319-335-3330

Degrees Offered

  • M.A.
  • M.S.

Areas of Concentration

  • Economic Development
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Housing and Community Development
  • Land Use and Environmental Planning
  • Transportation

Joint Degrees Offered With:

  • Law
  • Health Management and Policy (formerly Hospital & Health Administration)
  • Social Work
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Occupational and Environmental Health

Faculty

  • Full-time Professors: 9
  • Adjunct or Visiting Faculty: 4

Students

  • Usual Entering Class: 22-28 students
  • Usual Total Number of Students in the Program (including joint degree candidates): 50-60

Requirements

  • B.A. or B.S. in any major

Recommended Courses Prior to Admission

  • Introductory Statistics
  • Microeconomics

Internship

  • Most students do an internship between the 1st and 2nd year

Thesis Required

  • No

Cost

  • Resident Tuition (In-state without Assistantship)
    • $3,850.50 per semester (includes tuition plus mandatory fees) for 2009-10
  • Students with Assistantships (In-State or Out-of-State)
    • $3,723.00 per semester (includes tuition plus mandatory fees) for 2009-10
      (Reflects waiver of computer fee for students with assistantships.)
  • Non-Resident Tuition (Out-of-State without Assistantship)
    • $10,652.50 per semester (includes tuition plus mandatory fees) for 2009-10

Assistantships Offered (Merit-based assistantships only)

  • Available to both first- and second-year students
  • Require 10 hours of work per week
  • Assistantship stipends for 2010-11 will be $8,287.50 per year, and the accompanying tuition scholarship will increase significantly to approach 100%. If the increase in tuition for 2010-11 (announced by the Board of Regents in 2010) is 5.6% or less, a full tuition scholarship will be provided. If the increase in tuition is more than 5.6%, a tuition scholarship of $3,612 per semester ($7,224 per year) will be provided.

The University of Iowa has approximately 30,500 students.

Iowa City has a population of about 67,000. The metro area has a population of over 149,000.