Guide to Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning

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.

16th Edition Guide
Plans for the 16th Edition Guide are to publish in 2010 only here at www.acsp.org.

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.