Advanced Landscape Planning and Management MSc

Newcastle University

Our Master’s will enable you to develop the knowledge and skills you need to work in organisations and authorities responsible for planning and managing landscapes.

Overview

The Advanced Landscape Planning and Management MSc is an innovative one-year postgraduate programme. This course will provide you with the intellectual and practical skills required for effective landscape planning and management.

As a landscape planner or landscape manager, you will design, care for, and maintain the countryside, as well as urban and coastal landscapes. You will ensure that these landscapes meet the needs and aspirations of present and future owners, communities and users.

What you will learn on our Master’s will be relevant worldwide. You’ll develop the skills needed to tackle key challenges facing contemporary society:

• climate change
• species loss
• rapid urbanisation
• migration (human and non-human)
• social justice and belonging
• heritage restoration

This Advanced Landscape Planning and Management course is suitable for:

• graduates in other disciplines who wish to qualify as professional landscape planners and managers
• landscape planners or managers who want to secure an academic qualification
• those with international landscape qualifications (or related disciplines) who wish to pursue professional studies in the UK
• those interested in advanced level research in landscape planning, landscape management, and landscape studies

Our Careers Service

Our award-winning Careers Service is one of the largest and best in the country, and we have strong links with employers. We provide an extensive range of opportunities to all students through our ncl+ initiative.