Urban and Regional Planning

Land use, growth management, transportation, housing and resilience: how communities decide what gets built where. ⚠⚠ In Florida this is a MASTER'S programme. Five universities hold PAB accreditation, all at master's level, and they award about 104 planning master's a year against 13 bachelor's.

The degrees this program covers

⚠⚠⚠ THE ACCREDITED DEGREE IS A MASTER'S. PAB accredits five Florida programmes, all master's: UF's Master of Urban and Regional Planning (41 a year, campus and online), FSU's Master of Science in Planning (29), UCF's M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning (12), USF's MURP (12) and FAU's MURP (10). ⚠ UF's listed accreditation term ends 31 December 2026, so check the PAB site for its current status. ⚠ FAU also awards the only planning bachelor's in the state (13 a year), which is not on the PAB list, and UF adds 12 postbaccalaureate certificates. ⚠⚠ So the undergraduate major is a choice: public administration, geography, sustainability studies, architecture, economics and political science all feed planning master's programmes, and BLS names architecture, social science and business. Take GIS, statistics, state and local government and writing whatever the major. ⚠ Florida does not license planners; the professional credential is AICP.

Careers this program leads to

Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end, and the sources behind it.

Urban and Regional Planner

⚠⚠ The planning degree is a master's: all five PAB-accredited programmes in Florida are master's, and they award about 104 a year against 13 planning bachelor's (FAU only). So the undergraduate major is a choice, and this page compares the routes. ⚠ Florida law requires every county and city to maintain a comprehensive plan and review it every seven years, which is why 74% of planners work for local government. Median pay $89,320 nationally, $80,720 in Florida.

Programs similar to this one

Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers. ⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.

Architecture and Landscape Architecture 15 Florida schools

⚠ BLS names architecture as a feeder, and urban design and site planning are shared ground. The difference is scale and client: an architect designs a building for an owner; a planner writes the rules every building in the jurisdiction must meet.

Civil Engineering 9 Florida schools

⚠ The planner's closest colleague on transportation, stormwater and infrastructure. Transportation planning (URP6711) and transportation engineering (TTE4004) meet at the metropolitan planning organisation.

Environmental Science and Studies 19 Florida schools

⚠ Florida comprehensive plans carry conservation and coastal management elements, and resilience planning is now routine, so environmental science graduates move into planning master's programmes.

Real Estate 8 Florida schools

⚠ The other side of the zoning table: developers and their consultants hire planners to navigate the same comprehensive plans and land-development codes.

Florida public institutions offering this program

5 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023, at these levels: Bachelor's, Doctorate (research/scholarship), Master's, Postbaccalaureate certificate. A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.

Florida Atlantic University

Bachelor's · Master's

Florida State University

Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's

University of Central Florida

Master's

University of Florida

Master's · Postbaccalaureate certificate

University of South Florida

Master's

Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only — the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023 will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.

Updated 23 September 2026. ⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.