MSc Urban Planning
Sheffield Hallam University
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Course summaryExplore key planning issues at a global, national and local scale.Learn with academic and professional practitioners.Adapt the course to meet your academic interests and career aspirations.Gain core knowledge and skills for contemporary planning practice.Create a professional profile to kickstart your careerUnderstand how our cities and neighbourhoods are developed and gain the relevant skills to shape their future. Accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), this ...Read more

Course summary

  • Explore key planning issues at a global, national and local scale.
  • Learn with academic and professional practitioners.
  • Adapt the course to meet your academic interests and career aspirations.
  • Gain core knowledge and skills for contemporary planning practice.
  • Create a professional profile to kickstart your career

Understand how our cities and neighbourhoods are developed and gain the relevant skills to shape their future. Accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), this course provides an adaptable approach to learning with a range of specialisms to explore. Choose from environmental planning, urban design & development, planning for housing, historic environment, transport & infrastructure or economic development.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

The course explores the relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge through our dynamic approach to teaching. You’ll develop your skills as an independent, critical and reflective learner through a range of professional learning experiences. You’ll benefit from a mix of face-to-face lessons and online tutorials. Not only does our virtual learning platform help you interact with course material and other students – it also gives you the skills you need to operate as a contemporary planning professional.

You learn through

  • seminars
  • workshops
  • gateway talks and lectures
  • individual and group tasks
  • virtual fieldwork
  • case study analysis
  • real-life planning scenarios
  • online learning platforms

Future careers

A planning qualification can open up opportunities in

  • strategic planning and policy development
  • regeneration
  • development implementation and management
  • environmental protection
  • infrastructure planning
  • transport and accessibility planning
  • housing planning, development and delivery
  • economic development
  • health
  • health planning
  • heritage and historic environment
  • waste, energy and minerals planning

Planners are also employed across a range of public and private sector bodies in wider roles in wider policy development and in campaign bodies and pressure groups.

Accreditation

This course is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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63rd

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Entry requirements

Normally you must meet our general entry requirements and have a minimum of a 2:2 degree. For the part-time course, we may consider you without a degree if you have extensive relevant experience, and subject to the approval of the course leader and the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Tuition fees

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Domestic

£10,310 per year

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Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from Domestic

This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)

Our tuition fee for UK students starting full-time study in 2024/25 is £10,310 for the course.

£17,205 per year

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Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from EU

The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.

Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2024/25 is £17,205 for the course.

£17,205 per year

This information is updated by IDP Connect, or in some cases the institution directly.
Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from International

The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.

Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2024/25 is £17,205 for the course.

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Sheffield Hallam University , Sheffield

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