Planning experts work strategically, often with competing stakeholders, to achieve the best social, environmental and economic outcomes. UNE's Master of Urban and Regional Planning offers a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive course that integrates the knowledge and skills required by planning experts to achieve the best outcomes. You will research and learn new technologies, analyse problems, and generate creative solutions. Your learned, transferable skills in critical analysis, planning, and management will set you up for success in your profession — this course will help future proof your career.

Why study the Master of Urban and Regional Planning with UNE?

Through our fully-accredited course, gain the knowledge and skills to excel as a professional planner, with competence and confidence that your knowledge is up to date with the skills to communicate to wide audience groups, strategise, and solve problems.

You’ll gain specialist knowledge across a range of important study areas including geography, sociology, law, public policy and economics so you can competently deliver the best professional planning outcomes for small- and large-scale developments across urban and regional contexts.

Together, we will explore a range of complex planning problems and learn knowledge and skills across a range of integrated study areas that contribute to finding sustainable planning solutions for communities, business and governments. Your assessment tasks will include project-based, real-life contexts. You’ll be steps ahead to apply your structural and statutory knowledge to built and natural environments within the legislative framework controlling land use.

Our Master of Urban and Regional Planning is fully accredited with the Planning Institute of Australia.

When it comes to education, UNE knows the value of flexible learning. We’ll guide you closely during your coursework, and throughout the supervision for your dissertation — we want you to gain the best outcomes from your course.

What makes our course different?

Our approach with the Master of Urban and Regional Planning is both flexible and multidisciplinary: our course integrates economic, scientific, legal and sociological considerations — knowledge that is required by planning experts to achieve optimum outcomes:

• Learn the principles and knowledge to formulate effective plans, analyse problems and generate innovate solutions.
• Complete a major research project as part of the course on a project of your choice under direct (one-to-one) supervision of an academic staff member.
• Study on campus or online with the freedom to choose your direction and electives to kickstart the next stage of your career.
• Complete your course in 1.5 years full time or take up to six years (part-time).

Consider UNE as your partner in education. We work with you to achieve your career goals — we are here to support you through the challenges, and to help future proof your career. UNE is an industry leader in the provision of online learning for teachers and our students consistently award us 5-star ratings for Overall Experience and Student Support in The Good Universities Guide.

UNE is an industry leader in the provision of online learning for teachers and we are the only university to be awarded 5 stars for our overall experience, 14 years in a row.

Students complete two trimesters of coursework (48 credit points) followed by one trimester of research (24 credit points) in which the student will undertake a full-trimester research dissertation.

To qualify for the award a candidate must pass units to the value of 72 credit points consisting of 48 credit points coursework and 24 credit points research dissertation.

Students will be required to maintain a Credit-average (or higher) to be eligible to proceed to the research component of the course.

Rule A

72 credit points

For candidates admitted under Rule (a)

• Core Units
• Candidates NOT wishing to complete the Dissertation
• Candidates wishing to complete the Dissertation

Rule B

72 credit points

For candidates admitted under Rule (b)

• Advanced Standing
• Core Units
• Candidates NOT wishing to complete the Dissertation
• Candidates wishing to complete the Dissertation

See UNE Handbook for more details. The Handbook contains detailed course information designed for enrolled students, including course plans, exit awards, intensive schools, and work placement requirements.

As an urban and regional planning expert, you could gain work as a consultant or as an employee in the public or private sector with high-level policy advice and research roles.

Planning jobs could include the design of new suburbs or housing estates, coastal and environmental development projects, creating energy-efficient housing and new transport services for sustainable communities.

A candidate shall: (a) hold an AQF Level 7 Bachelor degree in a discipline related to the built environment including architecture, planning, environment or geography; or (b) hold an AQF Le

An IELTS (Academic) overall score of at least 6.0 with no sub-band less than 5.5; or equivalent TOEFL score of at least 213 in the computer-based test; or at least 79 in the internet-based test with no less than 22 in the written component; or a PTE Academic minimum overall score of 57 with no skill less than 50;