Your Postgraduate Urban Planning Offer Holder hub

Introduction:

Hello, I'm Harriet and I study Urban and Regional Planning. I chose Birmingham because it’s got a really good reputation as a university, and also the city itself is really diverse and really interesting and has lots of good planning issues.

What is your course about?

My course is special because it really involved the practical aspect of the diversity of Birmingham, like we get really involved with all the different developers and all the different planning aspects of the city. So we’re not just learning in the classroom, we’re actually getting involved with things that are going on in the city, which are obviously very relevant. It’s delivered on Mondays and Tuesdays from ten till five, and that’s all kind of lectures.

What is the course like and activity work:

I do have a job lined up, and that was in lieu of getting work experience before I came back to University. So hopefully I’ll be going back there when I'm done with this course, and that’s a planning consultancy in Brighton which is kind of where I'm based now.

Personal experience:

So far I've really enjoyed kind of how personal the experience is, in that it’s a really small class sizes, everyone gets to know each other, all the tutors get to know you, and it’s just a really nice kind of informal communal environment.

Advice:

I’d say if you want to go into an postgraduate make sure you do lots of research before. I was slightly apprehensive about coming back to Uni because I didn’t really do a traditional course, and then I’d been working for a couple of years. And so I was feeling a bit strange about returning back and, you know, do I know how to do it, like will I have the support. So like really have a good look at different uni's available. I mean I chose here because there was lots of support available and the class sizes are pretty small so I knew if I wanted help I can go ask and feel like I'm more of a name and not just a number really.