Urban Planning (Honours) Newcastle University

Overview

The Urban Planning (Honours) programme from Newcastle University gives you the skills to understand places and the tools to bring meaningful positive change to them.

Combine the latest research with practical planning knowledge, concepts, and skills.

They bring together key skills such as:

• site analysis

• digital planning

• mapping

• research skills

On the programme they'll support you through a substantial research project. As well as this, you'll also develop specialisms through the optional modules that you choose. Newcastle, a city famous for its friendliness, offers a vibrant case study. From the Industrial Revolution to modernism, and its more recent cultural renaissance.

Career opportunities:

The graduates do exceptionally well in the job market, both regionally and nationally, with many going on to pursue accredited Town Planner status.

The graduates have also gone on to become teachers, accountants, solicitors, academics, business managers and officers in the armed forces.

To become a Chartered Town Planner you need to fulfil the RTPI educational requirements and then complete two years' experience in planning practice.

• the four-year MPlan degree offers an RTPI-accredited route to Chartered Town Planner status
• the three-year BA Honours degree provides the foundation for this but requires an additional year of master's-level study

This three-year degree satisfies the core spatial planning requirements for RTPI membership, but not the specialist teaching requirements to achieve Chartered Town Planner status directly.