
Your Postgraduate Urban and Regional Planning Offer Holder Hub

Congratulations on your offer to study Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Birmingham! This is your dedicated subject hub where you will find important information about your course before you start!
Why study Urban and Regional Studies at Birmingham?
- Join our community – Become part of an academic community, learning from both academics and specialist practitioners. From the outset you will be encouraged to become an independent and self-motivated learner, and challenged to think for yourself.
- Real world study - Our programme focuses on applied, real world study, ensuring you gain the essential transferable skills valued by all employers. To create this “real world” feel, there are a number of planning practitioners who directly input into our programme. Get involved in the practical aspect of the diversity of Birmingham with developers and planning issues around the city and wider West Midlands, combining to create our “learning laboratory”.
- Research-led teaching – Our extensive research and consultancy work ensures that our teaching is relevant, up-to-date and research-led, while losing none of its intellectual rigour.
- Student support - You will benefit from a favourable staff–student ratio and full tutorial support as well as access to a comprehensive support system throughout your time at Birmingham that will assist and encourage you, including personal tutors and welfare tutors who can help with both academic and welfare issues.
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Accredited degree: Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
Fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), this programme is designed to develop you into a reflective practitioner in the planning profession and related disciplines in the built environment. It is ideal for those who wish to gain a professional qualification that will enable them to pursue and build a career in spatial planning and related areas of regeneration, economic development, housing and transport.
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Find out what modules you can study as part of your degree with our module handbook. When its time to choose your modules you will be sent a separate email so keep an eye out for that.
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