School of Environment, Education and Development

Planning MSc

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 Months Full-Time | 24 Months Part-Time

About the course

This MSc will provide you with the range of skills necessary for a career in urban or environmental planning and development, either in the public or private sector. It will provide you with the core knowledge, competencies and skills required to become a chartered planning and development professional and a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and/or the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. The course will provide you with core professional knowledge and skills in planning procedures, theory and ethics, urban development and spatial analysis. You will also gain experience of planning and development processes through project work, providing a practical grounding for your future career

We caught up with Planning alum David Rudlin who graduated in Planning from Manchester in 1984 and is Urban Design Director of BDP, a leading planning and design consultancy. “Planning is a fantastic, generalist degree. It tells you about everything – from how traffic works, to how sewage works, to how towns are planned. And university was the thing that shaped me."

Learn more about David’s career since graduating here: uom.link/pem-pg-david