MSc International City Planning

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard is required.

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UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

98% of International City Planning MSc students are in work or study within 15 months of graduation (HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2017-2023).

Recent graduates of the International City Planning MSc have successfully found employment internationally, across the public sector (overseas local, regional, and central government), the private sector in planning-related consultancies working globally, and international bodies (UN Habitat) and the non-profit sector (NGOs and Community organisations) working locally or globally. Others have continued their professional career in planning-related sectors, specialised for instance in urban regeneration, transport, or housing, also in leading London-based planning and urban design consultancies, UK-based local authorities and government offices, and academic research and teaching.

Employers of our graduates include Arup, Avison Young, Buro Happold, European Institute for Innovation and Technology, International SOS, National Parks Board Singapore, Swire, Savills, Sedas Strategic Land, in national governments and city and district councils around the world.

Compulsory modules

•  Comparative Planning Systems and Cultures
•  Critical Debates in International Planning
•  Pillars of Planning B
•  Urban Design: Place Making
•  International Planning Project
•  Pillars of Planning A
•  Dissertation in Planning

Optional modules

•  Infrastructures as Agents of Change
•  Critical Issues in Infrastructure Funding, Financing & Investment
•  Planning for Housing: Process
•  Planning for Housing: Project
•  Urban Design: Density and Form
•  Urban Design Governance
•  Planning Discourses for Historic Cities
•  Planning Practices in Historic Cities
•  Participatory Urban Planning Project
•  Sustainability, Resilience and Climate Change
•  Delivering Regeneration Projects II
•  Urban Regeneration: Urban Problems and Problematics
•  Planning for Sustainability and Inclusion
•  Urban Systems Theory
•  Smart Cities: Context, Policy and Government
•  Sustainable Urban Development: Key Themes
•  Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Action and Spatial Planning