Why Study Planning at Buffalo?

Accreditation and Excellence

  • The Department of Urban and Regional Planning offers a two-year master’s in urban planning (MUP) degree that is fully accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
  • The Law School and the School of Architecture and Planning have designed a four-year dual degree that leads to both a JD and a master's in Urban Planning (MUP). Students completing this program are uniquely prepared for administration and public lawyering.         To be eligible, you must be accepted to both schools and have taken the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) in the process. For further information, contact Professor William R. Greiner in the Law School at ub13@buffalo.edu.
  • The department is part of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, and is the only accredited academic unit for these professional disciplines in the State University of New York system.

University Quality

  • With eminent schools of law, medicine, management, engineering, and education, and other graduate fields, the University at Buffalo is New York State’s largest and most educationally diverse public institution for graduate and professional education. A member since 1989 of the prestigious Association of American Universities, the University at Buffalo is in the top tier of the nation’s major research institutions.
  • UB offers numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary study. Each semester, graduate students from arts and sciences, engineering, education, management, public health, and other units take courses in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and MUP graduates take elective courses in these and other complementary departments, including geography, media study, political science, sociology, and business.

Location

  • The Department of Urban and Regional Planning is located in Hayes Hall, a historic nineteenth-century building on the University at Buffalo’s South Campus in the University Heights district of the City of Buffalo.
  • The highly accessible campus is situated in a mixed-use residential neighborhood alongside a station on the NFTA Metro bus and rail system. Buffalo’s upper Main Street commercial district, with coffeehouses, eateries, book stores, and a full array of student services, is nearby. Affordable housing is readily available.