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2018-2019 Top Planning Programs                                         

​Change from 2017-18

1. Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ

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2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA

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3. University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA

+1

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4. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC

-1

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5. University of Illinois at Chicago - Chicago, IL

New Top 10

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6. University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA

-1

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7. University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA

​+1

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​8. Cornell University - Ithaca, NY

​-1

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9. Harvard University - Cambridge, MA

-3

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10. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI

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The 2017-2018 top planning programs were selected by participants in the annual planning program playoff. While every effort was made to produce quality results (e.g. seeding of Planetizen's top 4 programs in separate "regions"), this ranking is not in any way a scientific study or evaluation of these programs. All PAB programs are top rate for urban planning studies.

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