Urban analytics is an emerging field that incorporates smart cities, urban informatics, and urban science. The goal of urban analytics is to leverage data science in addressing major issues cities continue to face. These issues include air, water, and land pollution, carbon emissions, traffic congestion, inadequate housing options, and disparities in access to urban services.

We believe the skills and knowledge necessary to tackle such challenging urban problems require an integrated multidisciplinary approach.The MSUA at Georgia Tech is the first of its kind in the country. No other program harnesses the power of four ranked schools to teach urban analytics in such a multidisciplinary way. 

The MS in Urban Analytics degree is a one year program (three semesters), designed to give graduates a core of computing, urban planning, and data analysis and visualization skills to identify, analyze, and solve urban problems. Students will integrate those skills in an interdisciplinary way that other, single-discipline-oriented urban analytics degrees might not, and will experience a depth of urban problems addressable with data analytics.

The curriculum includes four learning modules. Each student will complete 6 credit hours of coursework from each of the four modules in the first two semesters. The remaining 6 credits are completed through a summer capstone in smart cities.