Urban and Regional Planning

The MA Urban and Regional Planningdegree offered at the University of Westminster will give you the skills, knowledge and abilities necessary to practise professionally as a spatial planner in a variety of private, public and third sector/ community contexts.The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

The MA Urban and Regional Planning degree offered at the University of Westminster is professionally accredited by theRoyal Town Planning Institute(RTPI) and covers both the ‘spatial’ and ‘specialist’ elements of the RTPI’s requirements for initial planning education.

Building on the University of Westminster's experience of delivering postgraduate courses in town planning for more than 80 years, it examines planning across diverse contexts and scales, but focuses in particular on planning in, and for, towns, cities, and urban regions in the UK.

You'll be taught by qualified and dedicated staff who possess vast industry, research and teaching experience and moreover you'll benefit from studying in a genuinely interdisciplinary academic environment with excellent industry links in the heart of one of the most vibrant cities in the world.

The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

Career Path

• Whatever your career plans, or even if you have no plans at present, a degree in planning provides you with particularly good job prospects.

• Planning is widely considered a highly employable degree due to the mixture of skills and competencies students acquire, offering great career prospects domestically as well as internationally.

• Students completing the Urban and Regional Planning MA have an excellent record of gaining employment or progressing their careers in planning and related fields, working for local governments, quasi-public and non-profit organisations, as well as private planning consultants.

Job roles

This course will prepare you for roles such as:

• Community development worker

• Conservation officer

• Economic development officer

• Housing manager/officer

• Planning consultant

• Planning office

• The Urban and Regional Planning MA is fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as a combined degree program.
• On successful completion of the MA course students can become licentiates of the RTPI. After two years' experience in practice, they may make a submission for their Assessment of Professional Competence and, if successful, are then entitled to full RTPI membership.

Courses include:

• Making and Managing Places

• Sustainable Cities and Neighbourhoods

• Land Use Planning and Transport

• Streets, Places and Active Transport

• Environmental Policy, Assessment and Climate Change

• Housing and Urban Regeneration

• Communities Towards Sustainability – Public Engagement