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Master of Community Planning at Auburn University at Main

The Master’s Accelerator Program is a two-semester program exclusively offered to aspirational international students. Master’s Accelerator students benefit from comprehensive support and language for discipline-specific purposes. The curriculum will include advanced writing, public speaking, and research instruction. Each course is designed to help ensure success at Auburn. The small class sizes, hands-on and interactive programs, and unique curriculum are designed to help students progress seamlessly into their master’s degree program. Master’s Accelerator students will be enrolled as full-time students during both semesters of the Master’s Accelerator Program and will earn 9 credits toward their selected degree.

Community Planning is a profession that offers a wide range of opportunities for people with many different talents and aspirations. Planning is concerned with the use of land, protection of the environment, public welfare, the design of public spaces and infrastructure, and the economy. The Community Planning program at Auburn University is a professionally oriented, master's degree program. The hallmark of the program is the opportunity for students to work with real clients, on real planning projects, in almost every class.

Distinctive features of Auburn University's Master of Community Planning (MCP) program include:

  • Broad-based planning education with the opportunity to develop specialist expertise in one or more areas
  • Small class sizes with individual attention
  • The opportunity to participate in the MCP program’s Alabama City Year program, which provides real-life, practical experience in nearly every class for a real client in the Southeast.
  • An interdisciplinary, practice-based learning environment
  • All majors, degrees, and backgrounds welcome
  • 95% job placement rate in the planning field upon graduation

The Community Planning program at Auburn University is a professionally oriented master's degree program that focuses on the skills that professional planners need for practice in an interactive and interdisciplinary environment. The centerpiece of the program is the opportunity for students and faculty to engage with underserved communities throughout Alabama and the Southeast through outreach, teaching, and engaged research. Through working on these projects, students learn to help diverse and complex communities create and implement plans that improve and protect their quality-of-life, culture, resource base, built environment, natural environment, and economic vitality.


 

Level Masters
Discipline Arts and Humanities
Duration 24 months
Intakes Aug
Application Fees USD 0
Tuition Fees USD 42150
Campus Main
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Admission Requirements
Language proficiency (minimum)
IELTS 6
TOEFL 74
PTE 50
Duolingo Not Required / Waiver
Exam proficiency (minimum)
SAT Not Required / Waiver
ACT Not Required / Waiver
GRE Not Required / Waiver
GMAT Not Required / Waiver
Requirements

Minimum GPA - 77.0%

Rankings
QS Ranking 1001-1200
Times Higher Education 601-800
ARWU 321
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Shanghai Ranking

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