MSc Urban Regeneration and Development MSc
Year of entry: 2026
Course length: 12 Months Full-Time | 24 Months Part-Time
This MSc provides you with essential knowledge and skills to understand, assess, and lead urban regeneration and development projects. You’ll learn how to identify opportunities and challenges in urban environments and design effective, sustainable regeneration strategies.
Through real-world case studies, you’ll build practical experience and professional competencies that prepare you for a rewarding career in urban development, regeneration or planning.
The programme offers flexibility to tailor your studies by choosing from a wide range of optional units, including opportunities to study on an international field trip.
Completing the relevant modules also enables you to pursue chartered membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and/ or the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), supporting your professional development and career advancement.
Fieldtrip
This course includes fieldwork in the UK, and an optional overseas visit, to explore real-life urban regeneration and development issues. Recent locations for the optional overseas study unit include Amsterdam, Seattle and Istanbul.
Top 10
Join a UK top 10 Planning department (Complete University Guide 2025)
Proud heritage
Study in Manchester, a city where planning has been taught for more than 50 years, and where a range of urban development and environmental challenges and solutions are evident across the city and its surrounding region.
Robyn's Story
MPlan Town Planning and Urban Regeneration alumni
At Manchester, we’re proud to be home to a variety of talented graduates, such as Robyn Skerratt, who was named Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Young Planner of the Year for 2020.
Robyn, who graduated from Planning in 2010, currently works for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and, among other achievements across numerous planning roles, oversaw the delivery of the UK’s first Voluntary National Review of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, presented to the United Nations in July 2019.
