Course summary

If you’re an ambitious engineering graduate – from a civil, mechanical, computing or electronic engineering background – this course is a smart route to a career in the expanding field of transport consultancy and public policy. Our Transport Planning and Engineering MSc will teach you engineering techniques to develop transport networks that are founded on fundamental principles, robust evidence, sustainable and equitable principles, state-of-the-art modelling, accurate data analysis, and an understanding of human psychology. Taught by researchers with an international reputation, this Masters degree has been designed following close consultation with industry to help prepare you for a rewarding career. It also addresses the multi-disciplinary nature of transport – enabling you to make effective decisions for clients, employers and society. Studying in the Institute of Transport Studies at Leeds will also give you a unique head start in your career in transport. Not only does our world-leading research shape the course, but our close links with large corporations means you’ll have chance to interact with potential employers and possibly interview for graduate schemes and other vacancies. We also offer opportunities to build your industry work experience before you graduate with work placements and project work throughout your course. Why study at Leeds:

• This Masters degree is accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators and EUR-ACE.

• Our Institute for Transport Studies’ globally-renowned research conducted right here on campus feeds directly into the course, shaping your learning with the latest thinking in sustainable transport planning – and beyond.

• Advance your knowledge and skill set in developing solutions to engineering problems that fit the broader aims of transport and planning policy.

• Tailor the course to suit your career aspirations with a wide selection of optional modules in areas such as road geometry and infrastructure, public transport management and railway signalling to hone your knowledge and specialise in topics that interest you the most.

• Build industry experience collaborating on a multidisciplinary team project with students from other degree specialisms that focuses on a real-world transport problem posed by Leeds City Council and/or choosing our optional four-month industrial placement scheme.

• Familiarise yourself with industry-standard models and tools such as SATURN and DRACULA.

• Experience expert theoretical and practical teaching delivered by a programme team made up of researchers and academics from the Institute for Transport Studies who have extensive expertise across a variety of transport disciplines.

• Take advantage of our close working relationships with big organisations in industry such as consultancies like AECOM, ARUP, Atkins, Jacobs, Mott MacDonald and Local / Regional / National Government organisations including Department for Transport, Active Travel England, Transport for London, Transport for the North, West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Leeds City Council who all actively advertise and recruit directly from the Institute of Transport Studies.

• This course offers flexible study options where you can study full-time over 12 months or part-time over 24 or 36 months.