MUD计划位于设计学院内，是一个跨学科的专业后研究生计划，该计划整合了来自建筑，景观建筑，生态，法律，土木工程，规划，公共计划，系统理论和房地产开发等学科的新兴研究和应用实践。我们更大世界不断变化的现实。该计划利用我们亚利桑那州当地的条件-我们迅速城市化的大都市，干旱气候，文化多样性和我们的新美国大学-来制定负责任的全球倡议和针对城市环境的创新设计策略。该课程围绕对快速城市化和世界干旱地区特定的当代城市条件的分析和理解而构建。
The Master of Urban Design at The Design School is a transdisciplinary post-professional graduate program that provides students with actionable knowledge of urban design and enables students to lead urban transformations for community and urban resilience. Students study and apply newly emerging design knowledge from architecture, landscape architecture, creative placemaking and keeping, urban planning, community development, civil engineering and real estate development. Students also draw from critical works in non-design disciplines including climate science, social justice, sustainability science, urban ecology, urban climate, natural resources management, environmental psychology, anthropology, arts, histories, smart city, laws and systems theory. The MUD offers a 12-month curriculum built around the analysis and understanding of the dynamic urban systems specific to rapidly urbanizing regions of the world. The program leverages the Phoenix metro area as a learning laboratory through a number of challenges - the rapidly expanding metropolis, the scarcity of water resources, the extreme heat and climatic conditions, and the area's unique ecological and cultural diversity - in the development of responsible global initiatives and innovative design strategies for urban environments.