The Environmental Design & Planning Ph.D. at the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University is, an interdisciplinary degree program. Our doctoral students are members of the College at-large, rather than a particular department, allowing students to draw from the sizeable and wide-ranging knowledge of faculty from all three of our departments: Architecture, Interior Architecture & Product Design, and Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning. Each Ph.D. student chooses an area of emphasis, but the program allows for, and even requires, learning in several areas. The four concentrations of the doctoral program – Design, Planning, Sustainability, and Place Making – are expansive, and they encompass and embrace the interconnected and complex nature of the design and planning professions. When practicing in any of the design and planning professions, the practitioner benefits from an understanding of different approaches to the imagining and augmenting of the built environment. Our program takes advantage of the diverse but interrelated nature of the College's design and planning disciplines to give our PhD students a well-rounded education. The doctoral program supports advanced graduate research utilizing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary view of design and planning to better contribute to a more livable and ecologically sustainable society.