Local Accredited Planning Programs
The NY Upstate Region has three Schools offering planning programs accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB)
Cornell University's City and Regional Planning Program
Cornell University has offered a planning curriculum since 1935, when the Carnegie Corporation helped support the establishment of a pioneering interdisciplinary suite of classes in the subject. Today, the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) is the home of leading programs in planning, historic preservation planning, and urban and regional studies. Located in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP), CRP's influence, interests, and alumni reach beyond the Ithaca campus to communities, organizations, and institutions throughout the nation and world. For more than 75 years, Cornell's planning students, alumni, and faculty have worked to transform planning and the lives of the world's citizens; and in doing so, have bridged social concerns and physical design at local and global scales while utilizing a diverse tool kit of methods and ways of critical thinking, all situated within high ethical standards.
Department of Geography and Planning at the University at Albany
Teaching and research in the department emphasize urban, social, physical, and cultural geography; city and regional planning; urban design; remote sensing; cartography and geographic information systems; environmental studies; climatology; computer and statistical models; area (regional) studies; urban and regional planning methods; economic development; small town and rural land-use planning. Members of the faculty have strong international links with China, Russia, Australia, and various countries in Africa, Latin America and Western Europe.
They also have a Graduate Student Planning Association
University at Buffalo's Urban and Regional Planning Program
Focused on built, social and cultural landscapes at all scales, they work to establish the conditions for architects and planners to create more equitable, sustainable and well-designed environments. B/ a+p is the only school of architecture and planning within the 64-campus State University of New York (SUNY) system. A professional school within a major public research university, the School of Architecture and Planning advances the study and practice of our disciplines through experiential learning and research.