Master of Urban Planning and Design

Australia

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What will I learn?

Our Master of Urban Planning and Design gives you the technical capabilities and creative capacity to address the big challenges facing our cities. Complex urban problems require planning professionals who are versatile and multifaceted: they need to be persuasive collaborators, articulate mediators and strategic organisers. Whether you're keen to upskill or change careers, as a Monash Urban Planning and Design graduate you will be ready to work towards a sustainable and people-centered future. Our degree is accredited by the Planning Institute of Australia.

The degree seeks applicants from a diverse range of disciplines: architecture and design, economics, engineering, environmental science, geography, international development, and landscape architecture.

You'll build on what you already know to make a strong platform for the next stage in your career with urban planning and design.

Employers now require planners who can bring fresh perspectives to solving urban problems, and readily adapt to new roles in the workplace.

This course clearly puts you ahead of the competition by training you to integrate design with traditional policy-based knowledge.

There are many directions your career might take and you can be employed in challenging positions in a range of organisations.

You may work in local government as a statutory planner working on local development proposals or resolving community disputes. You could work in state agencies to manage environmentally sensitive areas or providing transport and other infrastructure or with Australian or international firms that specialise in community planning to delivering affordable housing. Other graduates work in not-for-profit organisations in underdeveloped or overdeveloped places far and wide, where you'll confront diverse climatic and cultural issues.

Regardless of where you would like to apply your skills and knowledge, our Master of Urban Planning and Design will prepare you to be a planning professional capable of resolving some of the world's most complex urban issues.

Which department am I in?

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

CRICOS

093076K

Study options

Full Time (1 Year)

Tuition fees
A$47,500.00 (26,41,090) per year
Start date

March 2025

Venue

Caulfield campus

900 Dandenong Road,

CAULFIELD EAST,

Victoria,

3145, MELBOURNE, Australia

Entry requirements

For international students

An Australian undergraduate degree (or equivalent) with at least credit average (65%) or qualification/experience or substitute that the faculty considers to be equivalent.

English entry requirements

Level A

IELTS (Academic): 6.5 Overall score, with minimum band scores: Listening 6.0, Reading 6.0, Writing 6.0 and Speaking 6.0

Pearson Test of English (Academic): 58 Overall score, with minimum scores: Listening 50, Reading 50, Speaking 50 and Writing 50

TOEFL Internet-based test: 79 Overall score, with minimum scores: Reading 13, Listening 12, Speaking 18 and Writing 21

Paper-based TOEFL 550 Test of written English: 4.5

Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) 176 No skill score below 169
Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) 176 No skill score below 169

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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