Overview

Director: Charles Connerly
Admissions Director: Suzanne Cowdery

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

Degrees Offered: M.A. or M.S.
Areas of Concentration:
1. Economic Development
2. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
3. Housing and Community Development
4. Land Use and Environmental Planning
5. Transportation

Joint Degrees Offered With:
1. Law
2. Health Management and Policy (formerly Hospital & Health Administration)
3. Social Work
4. Civil and Environmental Engineering
5. Occupational and Environmental Health

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

Usual Entering Class:
20-25 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 and Microeconomics

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

Thesis Required: No

Cost:
Resident Tuition (In-state without assistantship):
$3,640.50 per semester (includes tuition plus mandatory fees) for 2008-09

Students with Assistantships (In-State or Out-of-State):
$3,518.00 per semester (reflects waiver of computer fee for students with assistantships)
Includes tuition plus mandatory fees for 2008-09

Non-Resident Tuition: Out-of-State (without assistantships):
$10,081.50 per semester (includes tuition plus mandatory fees) for 2008-09

Assistantships Offered:
(Merit-based assistantships only)
Usually at least half of the entering class, plus an equal number to the 2nd year class.
Require 10 hours of work per week.
$8,287.50 per year for 2008-09
Partial tuition scholarship of $4,954 for 2008-09 ($2,477 per semester) accompanies all quarter-time assistantships. Assistantships qualify students for the in-state tuition rate.

The University of Iowa has approximately 28,000 students.

Iowa City has a population of about 65,000. The metro area has a population of over 120,000.