Bachelor of Science in Urban Technology
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Positioned within one of the nation’s top-ranked public universities, our Bachelor of Science in Urban Technology prepares students for careers in urban planning, urban design, public service, or entrepreneurship. We’re bringing together the digital and physical worlds to effect real change. This degree program is for people like you — creative problem solvers who see technology as a way to improve urban life. You’ll graduate with an understanding of cities and the design and technology skills to research city life and respond to urban needs.
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Build a strong foundation in how cities work to better recognize urban challenges and tackle them with sharper insight and greater creativity. Students study and visit regional centers like Detroit and Chicago, while comparing and contrasting them with global metropolises. Whether it’s transportation, public space and urban design, or land use and other policy issues, Taubman College’s wide variety of electives will help you go deeper on the urban subjects that are important to you.
Apply design methods as a way of researching the real needs of communities and bring immense creativity to how those needs are met. Through visual, communication, interaction, service, and strategic design, you will fill your toolbox with methods and perspectives that help you become an effective agent of change.
Whether it is an algorithm that optimizes municipal water flow or the app on your phone that calls up a taxi just in time, technology is foundational to urban experiences today. If you want to make cities more sustainable, just, and humane, you must be literate in how data and code can be utilized to modernize urban systems. Through data science, coding, prototyping, and AI, you will leave Taubman College with confidence and ability.
Cities are the result of many different stakeholders having an active role, sometimes in collaboration and sometimes in conflict. Our curriculum introduces you to a variety of voices and perspectives that shape urban environments. Through group work, you will develop skills in collaboration and co-creation so that you leave here a bridge-builder.
What makes Taubman College stand out? At one of 19 schools and colleges within the University of Michigan, you’ll have access to countless interdisciplinary opportunities across the university. As an Urban Technology student, you will experience:
- Learning in the classroom and beyond through trips to Detroit and other regional centers of innovation including Chicago.
- Course work in partnership with real-world organizations
- Dedicated Urban Technology studio space to innovate and ideate
- Award-winning faculty with diverse research and design interests
- Renowned guest speakers
- Student Organization that curates activities such as trips to cities in the region to meet local startups in urban technology
- Globally diverse student body
Student and Faculty Highlights
I chose Taubman’s new Urban Technology program because it is a future-focused and dynamic field. I love design, I love cities, and I want to make life better for others. Additionally, the prospect of traveling to different cities is highly intriguing, as it promises to expose me to diverse perspectives. Overall, the opportunities that Urban Tech presents for personal growth, academic exploration, and a range of career paths are both exciting and promising.
Our program is designed to be a platform for a variety of city-focused careers. You may work in business, design, research, or a technical field after college, but regardless of where you head after U-M, you will go with cities as your domain, coding as an essential skill, and design as your superpower.
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