MSc Planning

Do you want to pursue a career in shaping the built environment to promote sustainable development and climate change adaptation? Through policy formulation and the management of development in local areas, spatial planners play a key role in the delivery of sustainable development and climate change action in the built and natural environments. Our fully accredited postgraduate pathway will prepare you to develop or enhance your career as a chartered town planner in a rapidly changing world.

Key features

• Develop broad-based, multidisciplinary and cross-professional approaches to place making and the planning and management of the built and physical environment for sustainable development.
• Deepen your understanding through specialist options.
• Explore planning issues of particular relevance to south-west England, set within the context of national and international experience.
• Expand your skills through applied and experiential learning, including fieldwork, practicals, case studies, role play, debates and engagement with professional practitioners.
• Benefit from a supportive learning environment with an emphasis on small-group teaching and high levels of staff-student interaction.
• Fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).
• Develop the key skills and professionalism to prepare you for an effective contribution to the workplace, including lifelong learning and preparation for the RTPI’s Assessment of Professional Competence (APC).
• A diverse and respectful place in which to work and study is fundamental to everything we do.