Urban Studies BSc (Hons)
UCL (University College London)
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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

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Start date

23-SEP-24

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3 Years

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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

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23-SEP-24

Duration

3 Years

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Town & Country Planning and Landscape Design
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This programme has been designed with a range of professional career opportunities in mind. It offers great flexibility for students curious to explore a broader range of studies relating to the built environment, as well as other related subjects offered elsewhere in UCL.Degree benefitsThis programme provides a broad-based education in urbanism and the built environment, offering flexibility to choose additional related modules across UCL and benefit from the wide educational offerings across ...Read more

This programme has been designed with a range of professional career opportunities in mind. It offers great flexibility for students curious to explore a broader range of studies relating to the built environment, as well as other related subjects offered elsewhere in UCL.

Degree benefits

  • This programme provides a broad-based education in urbanism and the built environment, offering flexibility to choose additional related modules across UCL and benefit from the wide educational offerings across the university.

  • The Bartlett has a strong history of research and leading policy advisory work. It places itself at the heart of international debates on the future of cities and regions.

  • Based in London, we are able to offer our students a range of fascinating 'live projects' to use as case studies in their academic work, access to a diverse range of employers, and an unrivalled concentration of professional meetings, seminars, conferences, exhibitions and events.

  • The School has a strong international outlook and provides opportunities for combined study overseas in Europe, North America, Australia and Hong Kong.

Your learning

The School of Planning advocates and employs a very interactive, hands-on form of learning. Alongside lectures, seminars and tutorials we include field visits, group project work, and laboratory and design work sessions to improve your learning experience.

Assessment

Your final marks will reflect your success in a wide range of assessment types including essays, individual and group reports, urban design outputs such as posters and models, presentations, and a small number of exams. This is a distinctive feature of our planning programmes, and of The Bartlett's approach in particular. As an Urban Studies student, the balance of your assessments will depend on the free modules chosen in the second and third years.

Careers

The programme enables you to acquire highly transferable knowledge and skills such as data collection, analysis and presentation, graphic skills, resolution of problems and conflicts, negotiation and mediation, team work and leadership, managing work tasks, preparing and writing professional reports, as well as written, graphic and oral presentation skills.

Graduates work in a vast range of positions in the private, public and third sectors within the built environment and urbanism disciplines (such as planning, property, urban design, economic development, housing, transport, and regeneration), as well as in other sectors where their analytical, negotiating, problem-solving and creative skills are valued.

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CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2024
3rd
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2024
9th
Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional)
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 90 = 10% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
10%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
80%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional) graduate salary at this uni
£26,000
UK Planning (Urban graduate salary
£25,000
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Modules

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Entry requirements

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A level

A level:

AAB Grades / Points required

Scottish Advanced Higher:

AAB Grades / Points required

Access to HE Diploma:

D:30,M:15,P:0 Grades / Points required

Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal:

D3,D3,M1 Grades / Points required

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:

36 Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

DDD Grades / Points required

Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015):

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

No specific subjects. At least two A level subjects should be taken from UCL's list of preferred A level subjects.Contextual Offers: please visit the course webpage for further details about our Access UCL scheme.

AAB at Advanced Highers (or AA at Advanced Higher and BBB at Higher).

Pass in Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 30 credits at Distinction, 15 credits at Merit all from Level 3 units.

D3,D3,M1 in three Cambridge Pre-U Principal Subjects.

A score of 17 points in three higher level subjects, with no higher level score below 5,Contextual Offers: please visit the course webpage for further details about our Access UCL scheme.

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (QCF) or BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (RQF - teaching from 2016) with Distinction, Distinction, Distinction.

Successful completion of the WBQ Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate plus 2 GCE A-Levels at grades AAB.

Popular A-level subjects

Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional)

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

Mathematics
57%
Economics
51%
Geography
32%
Physics
32%
Further Mathematics
20%
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Tuition fees

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England

£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

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This is the fee you pay if you live within Northern Ireland. Please note, this fee has been confirmed.

£9,250 per year

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Students from Channel Islands

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This is the fee you pay if you live within Channel Islands. Please note, this fee has been confirmed.

£32,100 per year

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Students from EU

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This is the fee you pay if you live within the European Union. Please note, this fee has been confirmed.

£32,100 per year

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Students from International

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