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Postgraduate UOQ-URP-MAS-2023

Master of Urban and Regional Planning

Master sustainable planning skills

Gain the ideal balance of advanced theory and practical experience. You’ll tackle planning problems and strive to improve built and natural environments. Designed in consultation with industry and recognised by the Planning Institute of Australia.

Available loans

Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)

Total subjects

16

Price

From

$17,200

Study method

100% Online

Assessments

100% online

Credit available

Yes

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QS Ranking 2023

5

Times Higher Education Ranking 2023

3

  • 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 planner
  • Regional planner
  • Urban engineer
  • Heritage conservation officer
  • Resource manager
  • Transport planner
  • Strategic land use planner
  • Statutory planner
  • Regional development officer
  • Development assessment officer
Entry requirements

Higher education

To be eligible for entry, you'll need: 

  • a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in any discipline, or
  • a graduate certificate or graduate diploma in urban and regional planning, or
  • to have successfully completed at least 3 years of study towards an approved qualification at an overseas partner institution, with a formal pathway to the Master of 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. Assessment of prior learning and the granting of credit or exemption will be consistent with the Recognition of Prior Learning Policy (limits in section 2.4).

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 Master of Urban and Regional Planning was the first masters level program in Queensland to be recognised by the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). It produces professionally competent graduates, familiar with the concepts, ideas and techniques of planning. Courses typically emphasise the acquisition of skills through small scale exercises or practical project work but fits these within a wider intellectual framework of design and public policy. Opportunities are available for a research investigation through an advanced research project.

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