Urban Planning M.Sc. at RWTH Aachen University

Programme overview

The Master's program in Urban Planning aims to enable graduates to work as urban planners. This includes preparing urban development plans, implementing activities accompanying the planning process and controlling and steering tasks in the fields of urban and landscape planning and urban development. The modules of this course of studies reflect our faculty’s research strengths and teach a combination of design competence and broad interdisciplinary knowledge with particular focus on architecture.

Faculty: Faculty of Architecture | Duration: 4 semesters (2 years) | Study mode: full-time; German-taught | Intake: Winter Semester, Summer Semester | Location: Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Career pathways

This Master's course of study focuses on the comprehensive activities of architects in Germany and the European economic area. It trains students both for the classical fields of architectural work as well as for new ones.

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Application information

Entry requirements

First university degree, required qualifications according to the examination regulations. A first recognized university degree, through which the necessary education background for the Master course of study can be proven. The necessary knowledge needed in order for studies to be successful is determined in the respective exam regulations (PO). Admission to first semester: Open (No NC). To be able to enroll in this course of study you must hold a first university degree, which, as a rule, is a Bachelor’s degree in architecture, city or spatial planning, or in another relevant discipline for this field.

Intake: Winter Semester, Summer Semester

Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)

Apply through the official page: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/studium/Vor-dem-Studium/~egg/Bewerbung-um-einen-Studienplatz/lidx/1/

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