Cardiff,
United Kingdom
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
MSc Spatial Planning and Development in Cardiff United Kingdom | Cardiff University
Cardiff University
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Cardiff United Kingdom
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Qualification
Masters Degree (Taught)
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
GBP
23,450
(c. USD31,404.47)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
12 months
Our RTPI and RICS-accredited MSc in Spatial Planning and Development serves as the perfect launchpad for aspiring planners and surveyors, enhancing essential planning and development competencies applicable across various spatial dimensions. You'll gain theoretical foundations, critical perspectives, and hands-on capabilities to realize your professional goals while making meaningful contributions to planning policies and practices both in the UK and internationally.
Planning and development occur within complex, sometimes inequitable societies, often becoming subjects of intense discussion and conflict. Alongside developing specialized expertise, we'll guide you in cultivating professional discernment and awareness of broader ethical, political, and ecological considerations. We encourage you to critically examine conventional approaches, challenge assumptions, and develop well-reasoned, independent viewpoints.
While emphasizing planning in developed market economies (particularly the UK and Europe), our program adopts a comparative approach, ensuring the skills you acquire remain relevant across diverse planning environments worldwide.
Destination of Study
Subjects of Study
Language Requirements
English
IELTS 6.5
Qualification Requirements
This is a conversion course. Conversion courses allow you to study a subject unrelated to your undergraduate degree or current career, and support you with a change of career path. No prior knowledge or degree in the subject is required.
Academic requirements:
Typically, you will need to have either:
a 2:2 honours degree in a relevant subject area such economics, geography, architecture, sociology, engineering, politics and history, or an equivalent international degree
a university-recognised equivalent academic qualification
or relevant professional experience evidenced by a reference. The reference must be provided by your employer to evidence that you currently work in an area relevant to the programme. This should be signed, dated and less than six months old at the time you submit your application.
If English is not your first language a minimum standard in English language of IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 with 5.5 in all subskills, or an accepted equivalent.
TOEFL (iBT) - At least 90 overall with minimum scores of 17 for writing, 17 for listening, 18 for reading, and 20 for speaking
International Baccalaureate Language A- HL 4 or SL 5
Academic requirements:
Typically, you will need to have either:
a 2:2 honours degree in a relevant subject area such economics, geography, architecture, sociology, engineering, politics and history, or an equivalent international degree
a university-recognised equivalent academic qualification
or relevant professional experience evidenced by a reference. The reference must be provided by your employer to evidence that you currently work in an area relevant to the programme. This should be signed, dated and less than six months old at the time you submit your application.
If English is not your first language a minimum standard in English language of IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 with 5.5 in all subskills, or an accepted equivalent.
TOEFL (iBT) - At least 90 overall with minimum scores of 17 for writing, 17 for listening, 18 for reading, and 20 for speaking
International Baccalaureate Language A- HL 4 or SL 5
Tuition
GBP
23,450