The City and Regional Planning Program maintains dual-degree programs with several other academic units: urban design in the College of Architecture; transportation, environmental engineering, and water resources in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; public policy with the School of Public Policy; and law with the Georgia State College of Law. The concept behind these dual-degree programs is that a student can structure his or her program so that required courses taken in one program can serve as elective credit in the other, thus allowing the student to receive two degrees in less time than the two would take to complete if pursued separately.

Candidates seeking the dual-degree should state their intentions and be officially admitted into City and Regional Planning and simultaneously accepted internally by the second program. In addition to the dual-degree programs, the business administration program in real estate at Georgia State University offers a certificate in real estate that some planning students elect to pursue; likewise, the history program at Georgia State University offers a heritage preservation certificate.