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Our two-year, 33-unit MA in Urban and Public Affairs offers a range of graduate seminars on urban studies, politics, and public policy. A 200-hour internship is required, as well as a Capstone Project that synthesizes your research and internship experience on a policy area of your choice.

Cities are concentrating populations and economic activities, increasingly and at an unprecedented pace. As a result, they tend to become the privileged levels of economic, social, environmental and political regulation of our time.

It is the area of ​​engineering that involves the conception, planning, design, construction and maintenance of the built environment. Through Civil Engineering we transform and adapt nature, we design and build cities/populations, transport networks, structures for energy production, water supply and sanitation networks, river and maritime protection structures, thus contributing to promoting the well-being of global society and its sustainable development.

This MSc program focuses on developing skills to create sustainable and innovative solutions for urban and building design. It covers core concepts in urban development, architecture, and planning, encouraging students to think critically about how e…

The Master of Urban Studies is a two-year, English-language program focused on rethinking contemporary urbanism. The program combines history, theory and practice, drawing on critical approaches in planning, geography and architecture. It is aimed at students who want to contribute towards a more equitable future. Key themes include infrastructure, urban nature and housing.

The Urban Development Planning MSc nurtures urban practitioners with the capacity to catalyse collective interventions towards more equitable and socially just urban futures. Building on The Bartlett Development Planning Unit’s established relationships with academic, civil society, local government and global partners, the course adopts a ‘Southern lens’ to reclaim the transformative potential of planning. 

This master’s programme focuses on economic and business perspectives of urban development. Urban development is driven by private and public stakeholders at local, regional, national, and international levels, and the program provides you with an understanding of the different stakeholders in developing and managing attractive and sustainable cities.

The PhD on Urban Development & Governance is a 4-year flexible trajectory programme that fuses urban management with governance.

The MSc in Health in Urban Development aims to prepare students to understand how health and urban environments intersect. The program covers concepts like how cities impact public health, the role of urban planning, and strategies for creating healt…

The BA Honours (Urban Studies) program introduces students to critical perspectives on urbanization and city development. Students become familiar with debates on the politics of cities and institutions, informality, consumption, and ways in which people participate in and reshape city life.

This BSc Urban Planning and Development programme opens a wide range of exciting career opportunities in planning, development and surveying. Graduates have an excellent track record securing employment in these sectors as well as transport, economic development, environment policy, and housing and urban regeneration. With modules that involve practitioners, you will also have the opportunity to understand how your learning applies to the real world and consider the ways in which you can develop your professional profile and employability.

Cities are more relevant than ever. They play an increasingly important role in the issues of this time: climate change, inequality, safety and health. Our Urban Studies programme gives you the opportunity to be a problem solver, teaching you how to develop real-life answers to today’s and tomorrow’s urban challenges.

This program is designed for students who wish to pursue an advanced degree in the broad area of urban studies, with research focusing on urban policy and governance, urban environment and resource management, urban data and analytics, environmental sustainability, and urban sustainability. It aims to strengthen students’ knowledge in related subjects and train them to conduct interdisciplinary analysis and independent research, with critical and creative capability.

The 2 year Master in Urban Planning and Development degree is awarded by Sorbonne University in Paris and delivered by world-class academics in Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. The program is designed for students to acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills required for jobs as a professional urban planner.

DLitt et Phil (Urban Studies) is an advanced level of study in which a candidate has to conduct independent research and produce a thesis that demonstrates a contribution to knowledge in the field.

The MSc in Urban Studies is designed to give students a solid understanding of how cities work and the challenges they face today. As cities become increasingly central to research, policy-making, and public discourse, understanding their complexities is more important than ever. With the UN predicting that 75% of the global population will reside in cities by 2050, the nature of urbanisation is diverse and multifaceted. Join us and explore the scale and intricacies of modern urbanism through this interdisciplinary Master’s programme. Develop the skills necessary for a career in academia, research, and other fields that require a deep understanding of cities and urban transformation.

The Master in Urban Governance of Inclusive Sustainable Cities is part of the MSc in Public Administration of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. A unique asset of this Master’s specialisation is the collaboration between the Department of Public Administration (Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, ESSB) and the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS).

The world never stops urbanizing and globalizing. Want a role in shaping the city and the world of the future? Our Master's program in Urban Studies offers a unique European perspective on local and global issues concerning urbanity and urbanization.