Rankings
While there is no official ranking of the graduate programs for planning, Planetizen publishes an annual list of the Top 10 US planning graduate programs.
The Planetizen-ranked top schools in 2012 are as follows with corresponding AICP Pass Rate (2011):
| Planetizen Rank | School | AICP Pass Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 87% |
| 2 | Cornell University | 80% |
| 3 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 74% |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley | 92% |
| 5 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 88% |
| 6 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 92% |
| 7 | University of Southern California | 71% |
| 8 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 84% |
| 9 | University of California, Los Angeles | 82% |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania | 89% |
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