Master of City Planning

Course Details

The Master of City Planning is structured to offer you the option of either developing your general planning knowledge or through your elective options and selected focus of your Planning Project, pursuing specialisations in City Renewal and Development, City Design, History or Theory, and Healthy, Sustainable Communities. Close synergies with other taught postgraduate courses in the Faculty provide an excellent basis for interdisciplinary working.

Qualification: Master Degree (By Coursework)

Course structure: The Master of City Planning is a 2 year program consisting of 1 research project or urban design studio and 14 courses (96 Units Of Credit/UOC). The program allows you to choose one of four specialist pathways, or a generalist (no specialisation) program.

The Master of City Planning degree provides you with an excellent platform to take up planning and urban policy-related opportunities across all tiers of government (Federal, State, local), private sector consultancies, property development, and indeed the breadth of built environment professions where planning skills are required. Pathways taken as part of the Master of City Planning may direct you towards more specialist areas, for example in housing, urban renewal, environmental management, heritage or urban design related professions. The interdisciplinary skill sets developed through the degree also enable you to move into wider policy, research, analytical, creative and community roles both in Australia and overseas.