20 Spatial Science Masters Degree Programs

The Programme, shared by the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture, both from the University of Porto, benefits from the sharing experience in previous years between the two institutions and aims to provide students a theoretical and practical experience for a deeper professional practice, beyond international borders, providing a variety of topics in the areas of planning, management, and urban policy in medium and large agglomerations.

Our Master's program allows you to specialize in one of these four fields, but also offers the opportunity to combine courses from all these fields. The program offers you the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to tackle complex problems at a high level of abstraction, keeping in mind the need to translate theoretical solutions into clear-cut policy advice. The contents are firmly rooted in economics, but shed light on the multi-disciplinary nature of many real-world policy questions.

The objective of the course is to train specialists to carry out studies of the territory that serve as a basis for territorial planning in terms of territorial sustainability, as well as natural resources, particularly soil as a scarce resource, by the Administrations and the company.

This master's degree aims to train specialists in planning and managing the territory from a multi-scale perspective, covering urban, rural, peri-urban and natural spaces. Its objective is to transmit the necessary skills so that its graduates are capable of leading work teams for territorial planning and urban planning. This entails the preparation of planning documents (binding or indicative) and the design of participatory processes in line with territorial development. It starts from a resolutely multidisciplinary approach and pays special attention to the sustainability of the territory in its environmental, economic and socio-cultural dimensions.

The MS forms a " planner " with skills that allow him to assume a role of coordinating project teams engaged in territorial and urban planning, landscape planning activities, and development of strategies, policies, and projects of urban and territorial transformations.