• What Is Environmental Planning ?
• What School Subjects ?
• What Makes Environmental Planning at Strathclyde Special ?
• Summary
• Career Prospects
• Entry Requirements

This 4 years full time Honours course offers full professional accreditation from the educational requirements for corporate membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute.The course's title reflects society's growing interest in environmental issues, land use and sustainability.

It is for those who want to do something to improve the quality of their towns, cities, countryside and coasts: it aims to:-

• provide good housing environments and living conditions; encourage appropriate business and industrial development and jobs;
• ensure good design standards;
• conserve the best of our natural environment and heritage;
• guide the uses to which land is put;
• create sustainable and attractive places; and
• reduce pollution and congestion and improve transport facilities.

Please see our students page for their comments on the course and our graduates destinations page for career profiles.

Our students have a variety of Highers and/or A levels including a selection from :- geography; history ; economics ; english ;
mathematics ; biology and other sciences ; MIS ; graphics / art ; and many other subjects which contribute to a broadly based
discipline like environmental planning.

We particularly welcome mature students, overseas students and students with work experience.

Please see our admissions information page for our admissions requirements
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• staff dedicated to quality teaching and at the leading edge of research;
• small class sizes so that students are guaranteed individual attention;
• excellent informal staff-student relations;
• real life projects to give you first hand experience of planning practice;
• contacts with professionals involved in all aspects of environmental planning;
• field visits - locally, to Scottish and English towns & cities and also to Europe;
• the opportunity for student exchanges to Germany, Australia,USA and Canada; and
• a chance to specialise and research in your final years so that you become more of an expert in your chosen environmental planning field.

• in the first 2 years, interdisciplinary classes, drawing on the social and natural sciences, develop an understanding of society, the environment and the nature of environmental planning. Analytical skills are developed through a variety of projects on a weekly basis;
• a third year which focuses on planning practice in Britain and Europe, including an overseas field trip, and allows students to specialise in urban regeneration.Students are also allocated to a work placement in a Planning Organisation for a short period of professional practice.
  
• a specialised fourth year, including the submission of a dissertation coupled with practice and research oriented classes in public policy planning techniques, sustainability, community, and economic & urban regeneration.

What do environmental planning graduates do?

With a degree in planning you have the analytical, research and presentation skills, computer literacy and knowledge of development trends and environmental impacts to enter a wide range of business and government employment. You also have the opportunity to pursue a professional career in planning in all manner of public and private agencies, as demonstrated on our graduate destinations page.

Please refer to our admissions information page. All applicants are invited to attend Departmental Open Days, held in the Spring of each academic.Potential applicants may also contact the Admissions Tutor ;
Ms Janet Brand

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