Bahcelor of Arts (Hons) - Urban Design, Planning and Development
- 3 years
- Duration
- 16,750 GBP/year
- Price
- Sept 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Oxford / United Kingdom
- Location
- Oxford Brookes University
- School
Program description
You can have a distinctive educational experience with our urban design, planning, and development course. Our strategy is built on a framework of interrelated courses, study tours both domestically and abroad, and urban labs.
You'll discover how urban design, planning, and development are related fields. And you'll know how to apply this paradigm to influence cities' futures and build wonderful places.
You will study:
- infrastructure
- economics
- heritage
- place-making
- sustainability
- globalisation
Speakers and live projects help you apply theory. We'll connect you to employers and help you build a portfolio so you're job-ready after graduation. Barton Willmore, Savills, AECOM, and the UK government hired our alumni. When paired with the Postgraduate Diploma in Planning or MSc in Spatial Planning, we're approved by RICS and RTPI.
Program structure
Year 1
- Cities in Historical Contexts (15 credits)
- Urban Diversity: People, Society and Space (15 credits)
- Urban Lab 1: Urban Design and Place Experience (30 credits)
- Sustainability and Development
- Development Processes and Site Delivery (15 credits)
- Urban Lab 2: Architecture and Open Space Design (30 credits)
Year 2
- Mediating Change: Governance, Politics and Social Actors (15 credits)
- Plans and Policy Making (15 credits)
- Urban Lab 3: Urban Regeneration and Heritage Conservation (30 credits)
- Environmental Decision Making: Theory and Practice (15 credits)
- Urban Development: Economic & Financial Appraisal (15 credits)
- Urban Lab 4: Urban Design Masterplanning (30 credits)
Year 3
- Research Methods (15 credits)
- Contemporary Debates in Planning, Design and Development (15 credits)
- Professional Practice (15 credits)
- Research Project (30 credits)
- Strategic Planning and Policy (15 credits)
- Urban Lab 5: Global City Design, Planning and Development (30 credits)
Price
- Tuition Fee - 16,750 GBP per year
Requirements for applicants
General Entry Requirements
- Acceptable passes in five subjects (exceptionally four subjects) at GCSE or GCE including:
- one 12-unit vocational A-level, or
- two A-levels or two 6-unit vocational A-levels, or
- one A-level or 6-unit vocational A-level plus two AS-levels, or
- two 3-unit vocational A-levels
- A National Certificate or Diploma at a good standard.
- The International Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum of 24 points) or the European Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum of 60%).
- Five subjects in SCE with two at Higher level or one at Advanced Higher level.
- Three subjects in Scottish Highers or two at Advanced Higher level.
- Any other qualifications considered by the Academic Board to be of equivalent standard.
- A recognised access course
English Language Requirements
- IELTS: 6.0 overall with 6.0 in reading and writing, 5.5 in listening and speaking
About the university
The history of Oxford Brookes University spans more than 150 years. We began as a modest School of Art in rented classrooms and have expanded into one of the UK's top modern universities with a reputation for distinction in teaching and research on the local, national, and worldwide levels.
Our primary goal is to provide a top-notch educational experience that helps each of our graduates to be competent, self-assured, and prosperous. The standard of instruction students receive is an integral component of this.
Oxford Brookes works with a wide range of partners both domestically and internationally. Our connections are essential to improving our instruction, research, and information sharing. Additionally, they provide our students a wealth of placement, internship, and employment options.
In cooperation with our Associate College Partners as well as directly, we offer a variety of higher education and degree apprenticeships (ACPs).
