Urban Planning

Our accredited urban planning degree allows you to explore the forces that shape our cities and neighbourhoods and help lead the debate about their future.

This course is available with a placement year option where you will study for 1 additional year.the placement year provides you with a fantastic opportunity to broaden your horizons and develop valuable skills and contacts through working with a self-sourced organisation relevant to your degree subject. the minimum period in placement

• Type: Optional

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Our graduates do exceptionally well in the job market, both regionally and nationally, with many going on to pursue accredited town planner status. our graduates have also gone on to become teachers, accountants, solicitors, academics, business managers and officers in the armed forces. becoming a chartered town planner to become a chartered town planner you need to fulfil the rtpi educational requirements and then complete two years' experience in planning practice. our four-year mplan degree offers an rtpi-accredited route to chartered town planner status our three-year ba honours degree provides the foundation for this but requires an additional year of master's-level study this three-year degree satisfies the core spatial planning requirements for rtpi membership, but not the specialist teaching requirements to achieve chartered town planner status directly. if you decide, during your ba degree, that you would like to become a chartered town planner, you can apply to transfer onto our mplan degree up until the end of stage 3 as both courses follow the same programme. or you can study a specialist master’s qualification, should you decide to return to planning later in your career.

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in England have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. Newcastle University has partnerships with the following companies: