![person smiling](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/UI-230306-MH-368-e1692902479584-500x0-c-default.jpg)
Are you ready to transfer to an exciting and fulfilling major and career?
Join us at the Department of Urban & Regional Planning!
The Urban & Regional Planning department prepares intellectually grounded students for careers in planning and planning-related fields. The Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies & Planning (BAUSP) program combines a variety of interests and prepares students for many fields, such as: government relations and policymaking, economic development and community organizing, transportation planning and land use, environmental/natural resources planning, housing, law, urban design, and many more!
![person smiling](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/UI-230306-MH-368-e1692902479584-500x0-c-default.jpg)
Apply to Urban Planning
Earn an Accredited Professional Degree
This professional degree is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board. Undergraduates take courses in a variety of areas. You’ll explore modern analytical methods as well as social and natural sciences. You’ll learn about communities, communication, and even the humanities, because people and their interactions drive the need to plan.
![person stands by a body of water holding a wooden stick and wearing a gray sweater and light brown bag](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Mendoza_Ana-2019-square-200x250-c-default.jpg)
![elle angelo](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/elle-3-200x250-c-default.jpg)
![person stands by trees wearing light green shirt and large red and black backpack with gear](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/rasmussen_charley-200x250-c-default.jpg)
![Ad with cityscape with text encouraging viewer to](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/FAA_URBN_2023_TransferAd2_Draft4-500x0-c-default.jpg)
Want to build a more equitable and sustainable world?
Take a Course in Urban Planning!
Want to learn more about Urban Planning to see if it is the right program for you? Join us for one of our intro courses! These courses do not have any prerequisites and all fulfill a general education requirement.
![Ad with cityscape with text encouraging viewer to](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/FAA_URBN_2023_TransferAd2_Draft4-500x0-c-default.jpg)
This course explores ways we can begin to resolve global, regional and local issues of unsustainable development priorities by better understanding how and where we choose to live.
![building with greenery on all exterior walls](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/jw-OFDrwleTtdE-unsplash-scaled-432x304-c-default.jpg)
In this course, students will explore the contingent and contested social meanings attached to the idea of ‘race’ and how these ideas are mobilized into racist political projects to govern the inequalities shaped by centuries of genocide, land theft, racial slavery, decades of legalized segregation and neoliberal economic exclusions.
![crowd with people holding one fist up](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/clay-banks-qT7fZVbDcqE-unsplash-scaled-432x304-c-default.jpg)
Introduction to the process of urbanization from a global perspective by exploring the social, political, cultural and economic forces that shape urban life. Students will learn to analyze urban development in a range of cities including those in the Middle East and South Asia, Latin America and Africa.
![circular, global image of city](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/lok-yiu-cheung-I5o79zxl-U0-unsplash-scaled-432x304-c-default.jpg)
This course provides an introduction to urban and regional planning by examining the history of American urbanization, the evolution of American planning thought and practice, and contemporary issues and planning approaches.
![people walking atop a black and white striped street](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/ryoji-iwata-n31JPLu8_Pw-unsplash-432x304-c-default.jpg)