MSc Urban Economic Development

The normal minimum qualification is an upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. A second acceptable qualification is a degree of lower second-class Bachelor's standard, or an equivalent overseas qualification, in a subject appropriate to the programme, plus excellent work experience. Please note that the equivalent overseas qualifications displayed here are those equivalent to an upper second-class Bachelor's degree.

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98.1% of Urban Economics Development MSc students we’re in work or further study within 15 months of graduation ( HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2017-2023 ).

Compulsory modules

• An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy
• Managing the City Economy
• Practice in Urban Economic Development
• Development and Planning Dissertation
• Urbanisation and Development
• Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives
• Transforming Local Areas: Urban Design for Development
• Society and Market: Private Agency for Development
• Critical Ideas of Development: Conceptions and Realities
• Contemporary Approaches to Development Management
• Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development
• Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development
• Food and the City
• The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning
• Urban Development Policy, Planning and Management: Strategic Action in Theory and Practice
• Transport Equity and Urban Mobility
• Social Policy and Citizenship
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 1
• Health, Social Justice and the City 2
• Economic Policy Evaluation Tools
• Housing Policies: Practical Dimensions and Alternative Options
• Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities
• Social Diversity, Inequality and Poverty
• The Political Ecology of Environmental Change
• Industrialisation and Infrastructure
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 2
• Health, Social Justice and the City 1
• Housing as Urbanism: Housing Policy and the Search for Scale
• Gender in Policy and Planning

Optional modules

• Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives
• Transforming Local Areas: Urban Design for Development
• Society and Market: Private Agency for Development
• Critical Ideas of Development: Conceptions and Realities
• Contemporary Approaches to Development Management
• Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development
• Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development
• Food and the City
• The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning
• Urban Development Policy, Planning and Management: Strategic Action in Theory and Practice
• Transport Equity and Urban Mobility
• Social Policy and Citizenship
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 1
• Health, Social Justice and the City 2
• Economic Policy Evaluation Tools
• Housing Policies: Practical Dimensions and Alternative Options
• Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities
• Social Diversity, Inequality and Poverty
• The Political Ecology of Environmental Change
• Industrialisation and Infrastructure
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 2
• Health, Social Justice and the City 1
• Housing as Urbanism: Housing Policy and the Search for Scale
• Gender in Policy and Planning
• London project
• overseas practice engagement