Master of Planning

The Master of Planning provides a new career path for design, planning and property professionals, equipping graduates with a broad understanding of planning issues alongside the negotiation skills and creative thinking required to resolve them.

Whereas planning has often been seen as an approval process, UTS approaches the discipline as a critical task, one that connects communities with governments, institutions and developers.

Through this course, students proactively engage with policy, environmental and demographic frameworks to understand how planning decisions shape the urban environment over the long term. This engagement is multidisciplinary, spanning planning, urban design, property, architecturelandscape architecture, economics, spatial analysis, law and urban ecology.

Careers
The degree enables professionals to change careers due to the multidisciplinary nature of the learning. Graduates are in public sector positions, including working for state and local government, and in private consulting and property development firms. There are also careers in strategic planning on major developments and projects, master planning with financial analysis, and the increasingly important area of sub-regional planning.

Applicants must have completed a UTS recognised bachelor's degree, or an equivalent or higher qualification, or submitted other evidence of general and professional qualifications that demonstrates potential to pursue graduate studies.
Pathway 1
Applicants with a Bachelor degree or Master degree, the qualification must be in one of the following 'cognate disciplines': architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and regional planning, interior and environmental design, community development, property economics, property development, planning, geography, geographic information science (GIS), environmental science, law, economics, OR
Applicants holding a UTS Graduate Certificate or UTS Graduate Diploma.

Pathway 2
For applicants with no Bachelor degree but holding a Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma not listed under pathway 1 - The qualification must be at credit average or above, in one of the following cognate disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and regional planning, interior and environmental design, community development, property economics, property development, planning, geography, geographic information science (GIS), environmental science, law, economics

Pathway 3
For applicants with a Bachelor degree or Master degree within a discipline not listed in pathway 1-
applicants should have at least three years full-time, or equivalent part-time, work experience in one of the disciplines listed under pathway 1, AND
applicants should provide a CV (maximum 3 pages) outlining at least three years full-time, or equivalent part-time, work experience* in a cognate discipline listed above, AND
a 300-word personal statement clearly articulating their work experience related to urban planning and explaining their reasons to study the Master of Planning.

Academic IELTS- 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0, or TOEFL- paper based- 550-583 overall with TWE of 4.5, internet based- 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21