The Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) was established in 1975, and is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025.
The department offers a variety of programs for undergraduate and graduate students to advance education and research. Our campus-based Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) was first accredited in 1978. The online option of the MURP program is the first and only fully-accredited online program by the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB). In support of the University of Florida’s Artificial Intelligence initiative, the Graduate Certificate Program in Urban Analytics and the Master of Science in Urban Analytics were recently launched. The Ph.D. program with URP concentration continues to educate the next generation of planning researchers and educators.
URP continues to lead planning education and research, with the co-creation of Landscape Architecture and Planning in 2009. In 2023, our MURP program was ranked 22nd in the nation, sixth in the South, and the 10th largest by enrollment.
MURP Graduate Rebecca Webster, AICP, Places Third in APA Student Paper Competition
Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng Featured in Newsweek Discussing Strategies To Combat Sea-Level Rise in New Orleans
Dr. Yan Wang and Ph.D. Student Su Jeong Jo Publish Research on Planning Career Mobility in the Journal of the American Planning Association
Dr. Laura Dedenbach, Ph.D, AICP, Named UF URP Chair
Preserving Old Florida: Research From the UF School of Landscape Architecture and Planning Featured in Florida Planning
UF URP Marks 50 Years of Planning Excellence With End of Year Celebration
