Your Postgraduate Planning Offer Holder hub

Congratulations on your offer to study 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 Planning 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 programmes focus 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 programmes. 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.

The University of Birmingham sits within a thriving city which is undergoing a huge transformation that brings many opportunities for students to get involved across all sectors. The careers team is already incredibly well-connected into this network to help make the transition from your degree to career seamless.
Kamil Krzysztof Rog, MSc Urban and Regional Planning Alumnus

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One of the UK’s most targeted universities by top graduate employers

The University of Birmingham is one of the country’s most consistently sought‑after universities by the UK’s top graduate employers, and has been for the last decade (The Graduate Market in 2026 High Fliers report). We are creating a new generation of innovative professionals ready to be part of advancing modern cutting-edge industries.

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.