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Department Ranked First in Nation
Posted on September 27, 2005

A recent study by Professors Deden Rukmana, Bhuiyan Alam, and Bruce Stiftel, former president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, found that the UCLA Department of Urban Planning was the top urban planning department in the nation on the basis of two combined indicators: 1) number of citations of faculty research; and 2) number of publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The study, titled “Faculty Quality at U.S. Graduate Planning Schools,” was published in 2004 by the Journal of Planning Education and Research.