BEng Urban Planning and Design

In the BEng Urban Planning and Design programme, you will study the planning and design of urban and rural landscapes in both local and international contexts. You will obtain knowledge and skills to analyse, critique and contribute to the shaping of the sustainable development agenda in China and around the world.

You will learn how to formulate strategic plans, design liveable cities and create public places. The programme will equip you to consider the social, economic and environmental needs of society and their interaction with the environments we inhabit and build. You will learn how to help companies and governments make difficult land use and development decisions while accounting for concerns like achieving climate resilience and enabling community engagement.

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.