PhD degree in urban planning was inaugurated at Rutgers in 1968, and the first doctoral degrees were awarded within three years of the program's founding in 1971. In 1978, the name of the doctoral program was changed to the PhD in Urban Planning and Policy Development, reflecting the programmatic emphasis on policy and politics that has characterized urban planning at Rutgers since its inception. Beginning in the late eighties, the program began review and accreditation which it has since repeated five times in 1992, 1997, 2003, 2008 and 2014. It has been awarded with the highest accolades by the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. The founding of the Bloustein School and the Public Policy program occurred in 1992 and was named after Edward J. Bloustein, the seventeenth president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. During the 1992–1993 academic year, Department of Public Policy faculty developed and received approval for the establishment of a two-year master of public policy degree at the Bloustein School. This new degree program added additional courses in policy analysis, quantitative methods, economics, and a summer field internship between the first and second year of full-time study. To meet the needs of students who already had several years of professional experience working in government and nonprofit institutions, public policy faculty also created a 30-credit (one-year) master of public affairs and politics that would replace a similar program previously taught at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Along with the master of public policy degree, the Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development became one of the master's programs taught at the school. From 1995 until the present, the school has been based out of the Civic Square Building in downtown New Brunswick. The Civic Square Building puts students in the heart of their community adjacent to government administrators and services. Its location is also centrally located among the three Rutgers campuses in New Brunswick and at the center of the downtown economy. The undergraduate major in Health Administration was created in 2015. In January 2017, the Bloustein School enrolled its first cohort of graduate students in the executive master of health administration program. The two-year, cohort-based program is designed for the health professional with five or more years of experience in the field. The traditional master of health program began enrolling students in the fall of 2017, and