Master of Urban Design (MUD)

The Master of Urban Design (MUD) degree program is a one-calendar-year, advanced, interdisciplinary program of study for students with a prior professional degree in architecture, landscape architecture, or city and regional planning. The program's goals are to further train designers who can work effectively in teams across a large range of scales and who have a well-developed understanding of urban places and the interdependencies of the fabric of buildings, landscapes, public ways, and the social interactions that shape them.

The Urban Design Program, leading to the Master of Urban Design degree, is a unique, interdisciplinary program of advanced study in which exceptional architects, landscape architects, and planners holding professional degrees partake of an intense, focused learning experience of 12-month duration. Students share working methods, acquire additional skills, and explore new avenues of development under the supervision of an interdisciplinary group of faculty members in the College of Environmental Design drawn from the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and City and Regional Planning.

The following minimum requirements apply to all graduate programs and will be verified by the Graduate Division:

• A bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalent from an accredited institution;
• A grade point average of B or better (3.0);
• Sufficient undergraduate training to do graduate work in the given field.