CLU’s Master in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) bridges theory, practice, and purpose to prepare leaders to design, manage, and implement the policies shaping the built environment, urban growth, climate resilience, and equitable development. This education is critical for professionals seeking to advance into modern local government leadership—where misunderstandings of land use, governance, or legal policy can delay projects, increase risk, and erode public trust.

In this program, you gain the knowledge and tools planners and administrators must have to guide communities effectively: planning history and theory, land-use law, development regulations, public finance, climate resilience, spatial and data analysis, and meaningful public engagement. You’ll learn to create sustainable and equitable land-use plans, conduct interdisciplinary research, analyze legal and economic frameworks, and assess the environmental and social impacts of planning decisions—skills that now form the foundational expectations for high-level city and county roles.

Designed to be flexible and accessible for working adults, the MCRP equips you to step into impactful positions across public, nonprofit, and private sectors and to meet the next evolution of what effective local governance requires: a holistic, indispensable understanding of how communities are built, shaped, and led.