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The Iowa State University Community and Regional Planning Program offers the Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP) degree with areas of concentration in land use and transportation, community design and development, and rural and environmental planning. Students may design their own area of concentration with the assistance of their major professor.

Double-degree programs are offered with architecture (MCRP/MArch), business (MCRP/MBA), landscape architecture (MCRP/MLA), sustainable agriculture (MCRP/MS), sustainable environments (MCRP/MDesSE) and urban design (MCRP/MUD). We also offer an online masters degree in Community Development, and participate in the interdepartmental Master of Science in Transportation program.

Learning Goals that students in this program are expected to meet include:

Graduates of the program will apply knowledge of the purpose and history of planning to analyze contemporary planning issues and scholarship.

Graduates of the program will utilize planning theory, ethics, and the ideas of equity and social justice to make sound ethical judgments and develop more effective planning processes.

Graduates of the program will demonstrate a working knowledge of planning law and local government institutions regarding how plans and policies are developed and implemented.

Graduates of the program will be able to evaluate a planning process; critically analyze how social, cultural, and economic forces influence land use changes; be able to create alternative scenarios for the future; and have experience applying these ideas through active learning and real life experiences.

Graduates of the program will have a working knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative methods and demonstrate their ability to apply these methods to planning problems.

Graduates of the program will engage communities, identify a range of tools that can be applied to different situations, and demonstrate their ability to expand participation, ensure inclusion, and give voice to diverse stakeholders.

Graduates of the program will demonstrate professional written, oral and visual communication skills utilizing multiple forms of media within a variety of educational and community settings.

Graduates of the program will demonstrate their knowledge and ability to create sustainable and resilient communities within a changing world.

Graduates of the program will demonstrate their ability to make strategic decisions, evaluate projects, and analyze policies.

Graduates of the program will conduct, in teams or independently, research that analyzes and evaluates a planning issue and proposes new ideas or potential solutions.