Infrastructure Planning and Sustainable Development

MSc or PGDip or PGCert

Key facts

Start dates

January 2023 / September 2023

Course length

Full time: 12 months (Sept start), 17 months (Jan start)

Part time: 24 months (Sept start), 29 months (Jan start) (distance learning only)

Location

Headington

Department

School of the Built Environment

Overview

Our MSc Infrastructure Planning and Sustainable Development offers a new approach to studying infrastructure planning and delivery. It is designed to make the step change needed to meet the sustainability challenges of the 21st century.

The course is ideal if you have or are seeking a career in the field of infrastructure planning and international development in:

  • government
  • the private sector
  • NGOs
  • multilateral and bilateral development agencies.

By engaging with new and innovative thinking on infrastructure, you’ll learn to respond to the imperatives of rapidly growing cities. And in doing so achieve poverty alleviation, ecological sustainability and local economic growth.

Our core teaching offers a unique mix of theoretical perspectives and practical skills covering:

  • governance
  • human development
  • ecological sustainability
  • finance
  • programme/project planning.

You’ll be prepared to engage with more holistic approaches to decision making and problem solving. So you can deliver infrastructure that provides for both inclusive and sustainable development.

Specific entry requirements

The course is open to applicants who hold a 2.1 undergraduate honours degree (or international equivalent).

We will actively consider applications from candidates with lower degrees, who can effectively portray suitable credentials, and usually have an appropriate professional background.