This rigorous, full-time program requires three years of study. The
primary goal of the M.C.R.P./M.B.A. is to produce professionals who
make meaningful contributions to the improvement of cities and regions
with a full foundation of business principles. Students are admitted
separately to the two programs, and identify their interest in the
dual-degree program on applications to both Rutgers Business School:
Graduate Programs-Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) and Edward J.
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (EJBSPPP).
Each
program accepts 12 credits from the other toward their graduation
requirements. Students need a total of 60 credits for the M.B.A. and 48
for the M.C.R.P. Therefore, the student takes at least 48 credits of
RBS courses, and at least 36 credits of urban planning program credits
at EJBSPPP.
Program Description
Students adhere to the following schedule:
Year 1 Full time with RBS (minimum of 30 credits)
Year 2 Full time with EJBSPPP (minimum of 24 credits)
Year 3 Mix of courses with RBS and EJBSPPP as needed
Third-year students may need 18 additional RBS credits and 12 credits
in the urban planning program to complete the requirements. Students
may reduce the third year load by taking additional classes in year two
or by taking additional summer courses.
Curriculum
M.B.A. Core Courses
Courses (Semester)
22:010:502 Concepts and Practice of Financial Communication (2) (Fall)
22:010:503 Supporting Managerial Decisions (1) (Fall)
22:135:583 Career Development Program (0) (Fall)
22:198:504 Introduction to Information Technology (1) (Fall)
22:223:520 Macroeconomic Policy (2) (Fall)
22:373:510 Principles of Business Presentations (2) (Fall)
22:390:522 Analysis of Investments and Corporate Finance (2) (Fall)
22:630:550 Marketing Design and Strategy (2) (Fall)
22:960:563 Data Models and Decisions (3) (Fall)
22:135:582 Business Plan: A Team Competition (1) (Spring)
22:223:521 Economic Analysis and Economics of Industrial Organization (2) (Spring)
22:373:531 Law and Legal Reasoning in Business (2) (Spring)
22:373:623 Business, Ethics, and Society (1) (Spring)
22:553:533 Global Business and Strategy (2) (Spring)
22:620:540 Managing People (2) (Spring)
22:711:562 Supply Chain Logistics and Operations Management (3) (Spring)
M.C.R.P. Core Courses
Courses (Semester)
22:630:604 Marketing Research (RBS) (3) (Fall)
34:970:501 History and Theory of Planning (3)
34:970:510 Planning Studio (one semester waived) (3)
34:970:517 Survey of Planning Law Principles (3)
M.C.R.P. Concentrations
Five issue-oriented concentrations, or specialties, reflect the
strengths of the faculty in the urban planning and policy development
program. These concentrations include the core of general courses, but
go beyond that broad foundation of skills, awareness, and understanding
to explore more deeply the scope of specific planning issues. They
allow more detailed examinations of the dimensions, questions,
conflicts, and impacts addressed by the professional as well as by the
researcher. They encourage recognition of common elements that resonate
between and among various problems, policies, and programs.
The program offers five areas of concentration that allow students to
specialize in one or more fields of planning, in addition to taking the
required core courses. These concentrations are intended to help
students develop a program of study that will help them fulfill their
individual career goals. Courses in each concentration are grouped into
"required" and "recommended" categories. The program requires that any
student who wants to specialize in a particular area take proper
courses as outlined under each concentration. Additional courses taken
in that area will depend upon the student`s particular interest and can
be selected, with the help of advisers, from among the listed
recommended and relevant courses or from other courses recommended by
area advisers.
These concentrations cover areas of substantial
strength within the program and school. There also are other feasible
concentrations, such as information technology. Students who want to
blend two concentrations to design their own programs can do so and
should speak with their faculty adviser and the area advisers. Students
select electives from the graduate course concentrations in the urban
planning program. These concentrations are:
Environmental and Physical Planning. Work
in these areas investigates the nature, extent, and value of land use
and development planning and of controls over land, including what
controls mean for population growth or distribution, for the
environmental quality of a region, for protecting ecological systems,
for developing community structure, and for public and private
development decisions.
Housing and Real Estate. A
broad understanding of housing and development planning, housing
economics and markets, land and building analysis, development, and
marketing processes, particularly in the United States, is gained
through a sequence of courses in development planning and practice;
real estate research, finance, and investment; and housing impact
analysis.
Regional Development and Developing Nations. National
and regional contexts delineate study in this concentration, whether
comparing issues and approaches in developed and less-developed
countries or analyzing the development and evolution of regional or
urban settlement systems in developed and developing countries.
Transportation Policy and Planning. The
transportation policy and planning concentration provides a broad
overview of the field as well as practical applications of planning
methods in these areas. Characteristics of current highway and mass
transit systems are examined in detail in the context of historical and
recent trends.
Urban and Community Development. This
concentration examines the physical, political, economic, and
administrative elements of development, as well as the methods of
assisting development impacts. Development is analyzed within both
urban and suburban contexts. The primary emphasis is on the United
States, although some information on Europe and developing countries is
included.
It is assumed that many joint M.C.R.P./M.B.A.
candidates prefer to specialize in the housing and real estate
concentration, but all concentrations are available subject to approval
by RBS. All dual-degree program students must also satisfy all other
requirements of their respective degrees, and should see the two
program descriptions for a complete set of requirements.
All
required and most recommended courses for these concentrations are
offered through the program and other units of EJBSPPP. Additional
recommended courses are offered within the university in the following
departments: landscape architecture; agricultural, food, and resource
economics; ecology, evolution, and natural resources; environmental
sciences; and geography, among others. Courses also may be found at
Princeton University and New Jersey Institute of Technology.
It is particularly important that the student obtain prior program
approval for courses to be transferred in and counted toward the
degree. Students should obtain such prior approval for RBS from the
director of M.B.A. programs, and for the urban planning program from
the program director.
