MSc in Spatial Planning

• This programme is designed for students with a background in Spatially-oriented disciplines, and research methodology
• Gain the skills and knowledge to understand spatial design challenges, and manage spatial transformations
• Choose a specialisation and explore a number of prescient areas within spatial planning, dealing with environment, mobility or development
• Prepare yourself for a career as a policymaker, urban planner, researcher, consultant or more

Why study Spatial Planning at Radboud University?

Radboud University's Master's programme in Spatial Planning department has an excellent reputation for research while maintaining a small size, which means you will work closely with fellow students, and have plenty of one-on-one contact with supervisors.

Radboud also has a great network, which gives you excellent opportunities to pursue valuable internships in the Netherlands or abroad.

What will you learn?

Spatial planners are fascinated by on-going and future changes in cities and regions and take on the role as managers of those spatial transformations - think of: regenerating shopping districts or old industrial sites; designating water retention areas; shaping urban mobility concepts for the future.

Related challenges vary in scale, from an individual property to European policymaking. The program sub-title ‘managing smart cities and regions’ reflects the challenges of the current and coming urban societies, at a time that ambitions for a ‘New Urban Agenda’ for the 21st century are formulated, with policies and strategies to create more sustainable and equitable urban spaces.

This specialisation offers a different understanding of planning and forms of practices. You will be encouraged to develop new ways of creating socially, environmentally and economically just places. You will also be encouraged to take a multidisciplinary approach to your programme.

Together with lecturers and practitioners, you will develop smart and sustainable solutions for actual and future planning problems.

Students will leave this programme with better insights into:

• interfaces between different planning concepts, sectors, specializations and interests;
• synergies that are found and trade-offs that are made along with these interfaces;
• paths through which integrative planning is manifested in policy formulation, decision-making, and projects at different geographical and institutional levels.

Career prospects

Graduates from this programme will find themselves prepared for careers as:

• Policymakers
• Urban planners
• Planning consultants
• Researchers
• Project managers