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 * What Urban Planners do? **

1.-Urban and regional planning is one of the fastest growing professions in the world with new job openings everyday and VCU loves the field of Urban Planning.

2.- The advantage for studying a master’s program in VCU is that the every student completes an internship in a public and private planning related organization. This students have a planning frequently contact with planning professional in Virginia, around the USA and another countries and all students learn the planning profession very well. There all students find good planning related jobs by the time they graduated.

3.- It's an ideal place to study because it's a historic city with rich traditions, historic neighbourhoods and exclusive arquitecture. It also has a thriving economy but also challenges like poverty, urban sprawl and political fragmentation as well as threats to enviromental sustainability. The city is also surrounded by many historic towns that now face challenges from new developments and new development patterns.

4.- Graduate certificates in Urban revitalization, Historic Preservation and Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.) and these can be done together or separately. They also offer a dual Planning and Law degree with the University of Richmond