Master in City Planning - International Development Group

The International Development Group (IDG) draws on the experiences of developing and newly industrializing countries throughout the world as the basis for advice about planning at the local, regional, national, and global levels. IDG provides students with an integrated view of the institutional, legal, historical, economic, technological, and sociopolitical factors that have shaped successful planning experiences and how they translate into action. Class content and faculty expertise include economic development at various scales, human rights and rights-based approaches to development, ethical and moral issues raised by development planning, the challenge of planning amidst popular discontent, regional planning (including decentralization), finance and project evaluation, housing, human settlements, and infrastructure services (transportation, telecommunications, water, sanitation, sewerage), institutions of economic growth, law and economic development, industrialization and industrial policies (including privatization), poverty-reducing and employment-increasing interventions including informal sector, nongovernment organizations, and small enterprises, comparative urban and metropolitan politics and policy, property and land rights, comparative property and land use law, collective action, and common property issues (water, forestry, grazing, agriculture), human rights and development, conflict and social dynamics in cities, post-conflict development, and globalization and governance.

To be admitted as a regular graduate student, an applicant must have earned a bachelor's degree or its equivalent from a college, university, or technical school of acceptable standing. Students in their final year of undergraduate study may be admitted on the condition that their bachelor's degree is awarded before they enroll at MIT.
Minimum score required: 100 (iBT) 600 (PBT)
IELTS : Minimum 7