Our Master's and Ph.D. degrees have long been recognized by the Canadian Institute of Planners and the American Institute of Certified Planners . Moreover, all full time members are actively engaged in research and publication which raises the level of both scholarly and popular debate on key public policy and planning issues. Faculty offices and the School's classrooms are located in the Lasserre building and in the space occupied by our Centre for Human Settlements in UBC's Library Processing Centre. The School has a space within the Main Library, with architecture and fine arts, as well as its own librarian. The School accepts students from a wide variety of disciplines ranging from planning, geography, and forestry, to business, political science, and economics.
Students come from all provinces and territories in Canada and from many foreign countries.
In recent years students have come from Canada, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Ghana, the Peoples' Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States.