Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP)

MINIMUM ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
 

The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies establishes the minimum admission requirements common to all applicants, usually a minimum overall average in the B+ range (76% at UBC). The graduate program that you are applying to may have additional requirements. Please review the specific requirements for applicants with credentials from institutions in:
 

• Canada or the United States

• International countries other than the United States
   

Each program may set higher academic minimum requirements. Please review the program website carefully to understand the program requirements. Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission as it is a competitive process.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST
 

Applicants from a university outside Canada in which English is not the primary language of instruction must provide results of an English language proficiency examination as part of their application. Tests must have been taken within the last 24 months at the time of submission of your application.
 

Minimum requirements for the two most common English language proficiency tests to apply to this program are listed below:
 

TOEFL: Overall score requirement: 100
 

IELTS:  Overall score requirement: 7.0

The fees for Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP) may vary from  - $23,711 to $25,000 anually for tuition fees. The fee's prices may get higher for international students.

According to our most recent alumni survey (2012), 86% of SCARP masters graduates who sought employment were working in a professional planning or planning-related job within one year of graduation. Exit surveys of graduates from the last 3 years (Fall 2011 -Spring 2014) indicate that at the time of graduation, 41% of students had already accepted a planning-related job offer. Sixty per cent of currently employed respondents selected “public sector” as their place of employment. Sixteen percent chose “private sector”, 13% chose “self-employed”, and 7% selected “non-profit”. These figures reflect both the historic focus of employment in the planning profession in municipal and other public sector agencies, and emergent new trends for professional employment in the private and non-profit sectors. The MCRP degree program prepares graduates for professional practice by providing the kind of forward-looking education that graduates need to become the future leaders and innovators of the planning profession.