MSc Urban Planning

The MSc Urban Planning programme provides you with an international grounding in urban planning centred on the theme of urban regeneration.

The world is experiencing unprecedented urbanisation in terms of the speed and nature of growth. One of the key issues for future practitioners will be how to deal with the challenge of reusing, transforming and regenerating the existing urban fabrics of megacities and regions in order to make cities more sustainable and resilient.

The programme suits students from a range of different backgrounds and it is not limited to those with an urban planning undergraduate degree. Through the programme you will gain the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills required to become an urban planner, capable of tackling urban regeneration challenges in diverse contexts, and of providing a vision for future cities.

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU, referred to as "XJTLU") is a new type of international university with independent legal personality and distinctive characteristics, approved by the Ministry of Education of China and jointly established by Xi'an Jiaotong University and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. She is currently the largest Sino-foreign cooperative university in China. It started with science and engineering management and has strong cooperation. It has a bachelor's degree in the People's Republic of China and the right to grant a degree from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is located in Suzhou, China, a thousand-year-old city known as "paradise on earth". Today’s Suzhou not only retains the ancient city style of parallel water and land and the cultural tradition of advocating culture and education, but also a city that keeps pace with the times. A modern city open to the world. In recent years, its gross national economic output value has grown rapidly at an annual growth rate of nearly 15%, and its GDP has long been among the top five cities in mainland China, especially its internationally renowned China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park has gathered a large number of Fortune 500 companies. With international cooperative enterprises and R&D institutions, XJTLU provides an unparalleled economic and social ecology and a vast development hinterland for the sustainable development of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University located in it.