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Postgraduate UOQ-URP-GDI-2023

Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning

Extend your planning skills and expertise

Make planning decisions that are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. You’ll explore citymaking, regulatory frameworks, and community participation. Choose electives to focus your planning career. Graduate job-ready or pursue your masters.

Available loans

Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)

Total subjects

8

Price

From

$8,600

Study method

100% Online

Assessments

100% online

Credit available

Yes

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  • 2023

Degree details

What you'll learn
  • Learn from Australia’s best planning practitioners in a program recognised by employers as delivering high-quality, job-ready graduates.
  • Tailor your program to match your career goals through practical and flexible elective courses.
  • Benefit from collaborative learning spaces, such as the $1.5 million Planning Studio, that allow you to integrate maps, plans and computers while working together as a group and with external bodies to address real planning challenges.
Career opportunities
  • Urban and regional planner
  • Development assessment officer
  • Urban designer
  • Land-use planning coordinator
  • Heritage conservation officer
  • Transport planner
  • Regional development officer
  • Spatial planner
  • Commercial and industrial development officer
  • Strategic planner
Entry requirements

Higher education

To be eligible for entry, you'll need: 

  • a bachelor's degree in any field; or 
  • a graduate certificate in urban and regional planning.

You must have a grade point average (GPA) of 4.5 on a 7-point scale in your previous qualification.

English Proficiency Requirements

All applicants must satisfy the UQ English language proficiency requirements for admission.

Credit for previous study or work

If you've completed previous study, you may be eligible to receive credit for – or exemption from – certain subjects in a UQ program.

Description

Urban and regional planning is about improving the quality of cities and regions. Professional planners assist communities, companies and governments to integrate the environmental, economic and social aspects of development from small sites up to whole regions. Planning deals with strategic work (long-range planning) as well as structural and statutory components in relation to built and natural environments and the legislative framework controlling land use. Accordingly, planning is closely allied with commerce, government, sociology, communities and the ecology disciplines. 


The Graduate Diploma is designed for recent graduates in any field, and for established professionals who wish to extend their skills and expertise. It will also help provide a preparation for entry into a masters program.

Degree structure details

Recommended Study Pattern

The Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning is a 1 year course for a full-time student. Each year consists of 2 Study Periods, also known as semesters. The recommended study pattern consists of 7 core subjects and 1 elective subject, with 4 to be completed in your first study period and 4 in your second.


Award Requirements

To qualify for the Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning, students must satisfactorily complete a program of study consisting of 8 subjects.


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