Master of Urban and Regional Planning

The University of New England

Planning experts work strategically, often with competing stakeholders, to achieve the best social, environmental and economic outcomes. UNE's Master of Urban and Regional Planning offers a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive course that integrates the knowledge and skills required by planning experts to achieve the best outcomes. You will research and learn new technologies, analyse problems, and generate creative solutions. Your learned, transferable skills in critical analysis, planning, and management will set you up for success in your profession - this course will help future proof your career.Through our fully-accredited course, gain the knowledge and skills to excel as a professional planner, with competence and confidence that your knowledge is up to date with the skills to communicate to wide audience groups, strategise, and solve problems. You’ll gain specialist knowledge across a range of important study areas including geography, sociology, law, public policy and economics so you can competently deliver the best professional planning outcomes for small- and large-scale developments across urban and regional contexts. Together, we will explore a range of complex planning problems and learn knowledge and skills across a range of integrated study areas that contribute to finding sustainable planning solutions for communities, business and governments. Your assessment tasks will include project-based, real-life contexts. You’ll be steps ahead to apply your structural and statutory knowledge to built and natural environments within the legislative framework controlling land use.Our Master of Urban and Regional Planning is fully accredited with the Planning Institute of Australia.When it comes to education, UNE knows the value of flexible learning. We’ll guide you closely during your coursework, and throughout the supervision for your dissertation - we want you to gain the best outcomes from your course.

Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education

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