Students can complete all requirements for both degrees within six semesters of full-time study.
The dual degree program is for students who want to go into urban real estate development, management of urban operations, or urban economic revitalization in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Urban planners increasingly discover that they need management skills and real estate development knowledge to make deals happen. Real estate developers trained with a private sector orientation discover that they need more background in engaging public actors and in planning projects that improve the quality of life. This is the case whether the planners and private developers are working on downtown development projects in big cities or on infill housing projects in older neighborhoods. It is true whether they are improving the character of development at the edges of cities or envisioning projects with more density in areas initially developed at low densities.