Some excerpts from experts in the field of facilities campus master planning.

"A well conceived master plan creates a clear and precise vision of where the institution should go and how it should get there, ensuring that individual projects will fit properly into the whole overall institutional vision. In simple terms, master plans allow a reasonable anticipation of what is going to happen.

The benefits of Master Planning

1. To ensure that your facilities support your strategic plan.
2. To create a shared vision within your institution
3. To make better use of your existing site and facilities.
4. to anticipate your future site and facility needs.
5. To avoid waste and disruption resulting from piecemeal projects.
6. To establish a realistic schedule and capital budget.
7. To unify the aesthetic asset of your campus.
8. To enhance credibility with lending institutions.
9. To focus and energize your fund raising and development efforts."

"...physical plans must be both general and specific; they must be concerned with immediate requirements as well as long-range considerations; they must cover the campus environs as well as specific building sites; and they must implement today’s educational goals while at the same time encourage if they can, but not hinder, new objectives.

(Dober, Campus Planning [Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963], p. 45)