Teams from the University of Maryland have won the $50,000 grand prize the last two years. Daniel Moreno-Holt of the University of Maryland is shown presenting the winning design at the 2015 ULI Hines Competition in New Orleans.

Teams of 5 multidisciplinary graduate students devise an urban development vision and compete to win $50,000

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has announced the call for applications in the 14th Annual ULI Hines Student Competition.

The competition is designed to simulate an urban planning and development scenario where intensive collaboration across disciplines and sectors is required to complete a major real estate development.

The competition began in 2003; nearly 7,000 graduate students have participated since that time.

The multidisciplinary graduate student teams from the U.S. and Canada must represent at least three disciplines, and have two weeks to develop the drawings, site plans, tables and market-feasible financial data.

2016 Hines Competition Calendar and Deadlines
Teams begin applying to compete: October 1, 2015
Deadline to apply as a team: December 7, 2015
Teams notified of eligibility: December 16, 2015
Competition period: January 11-25, 2016
Finalist teams announced: February 2016
Site visit by a representative from each finalist team: March 2016
Final presentations and winner announced: April 2016


This is an ideas competition with no expectation that any of the submitted schemes will be applied to any site. A $50,000 prize will be awarded to the winning team, with $5,000 of the total going to the school. Each of the remaining three finalist teams will receive $10,000. There is no charge to enter the competition.

For more information visit uli.org/hines or contact Robert Krueger: 202.624.7051; rkrueger@uli.org