Course summary
Fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), our Urban and Regional Planning MSc is designed to develop students as reflective practitioners in the planning profession and related disciplines in the built environment. The use of land and space is a hotly contested issue of fundamental importance to creating healthy communities and maintaining a good quality of life for local residents. Planners play a critical role in mediating between competing interests and building the foundations for equitable growth, sustainable environments and livable communities. Fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), this programme is designed to develop students as reflective practitioners in the planning profession and related disciplines in the built environment, and can be studied either full-or part-time. It is ideal for those who wish to gain a professional qualification that will enable them to pursue and build a career in spatial planning and related areas of regeneration, economic development, housing and transport. The structure enables students to combine the core modules and material in spatial planning with a specialist focus in fields such as urban regeneration, community based planning, economic development and urban resilience.
Modules
Core modules: The Planner in Contemporary Society; Introduction to Spatial Planning; Urban Property Development; Sustainable Cities; Place Making and Urban Design; Integrated Planning Project; Planning Methods and Techniques; Dissertation. Optional Modules: Urban regeneration and Renewal Towards Urban Renaissance: Community involvement in the Built Environment International Planning
Assessment method
The MSc Urban and Regional Planning programme places an emphasis on applied, real world study, ensuring you gain those essential skills valued by all employers, including group and project work, IT skills, presentations and report writing skills. There will be a variety of assessments that you will have to complete including essays, reports, project-based work, reflective think-pieces and a 15,000 word dissertation.
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- Town Planning Institute, Royal
Entry requirements
The normal admission requirement for our taught postgraduate programmes is a 2:1 Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline. For a Graduate Diploma you should have a degree or diploma or equivalent qualification in an appropriate field. Graduate Diploma students who achieve Masters level in their modules may be transferred to the Masters level.; English language requirements may apply for international students.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
For more detailed information on available funding and fees for postgraduate courses please visit: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught/fees-funding
Sponsorship information
CURS has a limited number of bursaries (paid at ESRC rates) for research students, normally awarded to full-time UK / EU students; CURS also has a fund (the Pat Cam Award) to help students take part in conferences and fieldwork; we also have one scholarship for international students of outstanding merit applying for a PhD: the Barbara M.D. Smith Scholarship; this provides the difference between the tuition fee for a home / EU postgraduate students and the international postgraduate student fee; the scholarship is tenable for one year, and renewable for a second and third year subject to satisfactory progress.
Provider information
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT