The School's students, faculty, and researchers work together to create new knowledge and tools for making cities more sustainable, resilient, and just. Students come to our school from around the world and arrive with ambitions to solve the world’s most vexing problems. They illustrate the best qualities of public mindedness and seriousness of purpose, and after graduation join our network of more than 1400 alumni working in 49 states and 31 countries. 

Georgia Tech's tradition of engaged planning education, coupled with longstanding values of sustainability, justice, resilience, health, and inclusiveness, creates an ideal environment for planning students.

Atlanta is among the largest concentration of higher education activity in the U.S., and among the most diverse and rapidly growing metropolitan areas in the country. This affords students direct access to a vibrant laboratory for urban planning and a rich menu of academic opportunities.