Master of Urban Planning and Design

Monash University

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.