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DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
111 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
611 East Loredo Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning offers a program leading to the degree of bachelor of arts in urban planning. Urban planning gives practical expression to human values. Its aim is to sustain and enhance the quality of life in cities and regions, to create the good society. Therefore, in addition to special technical skills, each student is helped to acquire a broad liberal education that leads to an understanding of the natural and social environments, their problems, and their potentialities for enriching human life. Undergraduate planning education leads to diverse professional employment careers or graduate study in urban planning or related professions. The degree is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board.
A transfer student must have completed 30 or more semester hours of acceptable undergraduate college work (including introductory courses in microeconomics, statistics, political sciences, and sociology: a sequence in English composition is desirable) with an earned grade-point average of at least 2.5 (A = 4.0). Transfer applicants not meeting these requirements will be considered in special cases.
The department's administrative offices, classrooms, and workshop space are located in Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. Students may go to Room 111 for information.
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning
also offers a program of graduate studies leading to the master of urban planning
degree, dual degree programs with the master of architecture and the juris doctor
degrees, and the doctor of philosophy degree in regional planning. 