Institute of Urban & Regional Development
The Institute of Urban & Regional Development is the College of Environmental Design’s home of interdisciplinary academic programs — the Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design, the Master of Urban Design, and the BA in Sustainable Environmental Design — and is the hub for interdisciplinary senate faculty research. IURD brings together faculty, students, community partners, and experts around learning and to co-design tools, invent strategies, and propose policies on local, regional, and global scales.
PROGRAMS
Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design
The interdisciplinary UC Berkeley Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design goes beyond the fundamentals — finance, law and entitlements, construction, economics and market analysis — to place special focus on design, sustainability and resilience, and equity and inclusion. It is offered on campus both as a one-year full-time program and a two-year part-time program.
Master of Urban Design (MUD)
UC Berkeley’s Master of Urban Design degree program is a one-year, advanced, interdisciplinary program for those with a prior professional degree in architecture, landscape architecture, or city and regional planning. MUD students learn to work effectively in teams across a large range of scales and develop a deep understanding of urban places and the forces that shape them.
BA in Sustainable Environmental Design
The multidisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Environmental Design (SED) offers students a critical understanding of the sustainability challenges facing urban regions in California and around the globe, and equips them with the technical, analytic and design tools key to devising creative solutions.
