Guide to Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning

16th Edition Guide
Plans for the 16th Edition Guide are to begin updating member files in May, 2010 for a late September 2010 publication.

View the 15th Edition Guide [PDF new as of 10.26.09]
The Guide to Graduate and Undergraduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning, 15th Edition is now available in print OR CD version for $40 each. Contact the ACSP office - 850/385-2054 or ddodd@acsp.org.

The Guide is prepared as a public service by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), a consortium of university-based programs offering degrees and credentials in urban and regional planning. ACSP hopes to encourage a wide range of high school and undergraduate students to consider a rewarding and challenging career in planning. If you are interested in a career in which you can help your community, influence the direction of growth and change, and build a better future, you should read the GUIDE. The GUIDE is designed to show you:

  • how fulfilling a career in planning might be;
  • the wide variety of jobs which urban and regional planners do;
  • the kind of education and training you need to become a planner;
  • the range of universities which offer planning education and training; and
  • how you might choose a university planning program matched to your interests and needs.

View the 14th Edition of the Guide [PDF]
The Guide to Graduate and Undergraduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning, 14th Edition is available in print OR CD version for $40 each. Contact the ACSP office - 850/385-2054 or ddodd@acsp.org.

View the 13th Edition of the Guide [PDF]

Previous editions of the Guide are not available electonically.