Strategic Urban Planning and Policies: Managing Socio-Spatial Dynamics for Sustainable Cities
Master
This programme focuses on how the interests and visions of diverse stakeholders shape, and in turn get shaped by, urban planning and policies.
Cities are complex, dynamic systems influenced by a myriad of stakeholders. Strategic planning is an approach that seeks to guide instead of control urban development. This programme will give you the qualifications to become an urban professional specialising in strategic urban planning and policy analysis.
Strategic urban planning calls for diverse knowledge and skills among urban planners for stakeholder management, socio-spatial analysis and critical reflection of problems and solutions. In this programme, you will examine the complex or ‘wicked’ problems that planners face and must address in planning practice.
At the end of this course, participants will have gained the qualifications necessary to become urban development professionals specialising in contemporary planning approaches. In addition, students can apply what they have learned by working on real cases in Rotterdam and worldwide.
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Title
Master of Science
Duration
11 months
ECTS credits
ECTS
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is a student-centred system based on the student workload required to achieve the objectives of a programme of study. Its aim is to facilitate the recognition of study periods undertaken by mobile students through the transfer of credits. The ECTS is based on the principle that 60 credits are equivalent to the workload of full-time student during one academic year.
Accreditation
Tuition fee 2025/2026
EU/EEA
The EU/EEA rate is the regular fee for students from within the EU/EEA.
€ 18,600
Non-EU/EEA
The non-EU/EEA rate is the rate for students from outside the EU/EEA.
€ 18,600
Admission
Application requirements
Architecture Development Studies Geography Infrastructure Political Science Public Administration Sociology Urban Management Urban Planning Urban Studies Civil Engineering Economics Environmental studies Gender Studies International Relations Law Real estate
TOEFL - 90 IELTS - 6.5
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| Tuition fees | |
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| € 18,600 | |
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InstitutionalThe institutional rate is for all students who have already obtained a bachelor’s or master’s degree and who want to start a second programme leading to a degree at the same level or at a lower level. |
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| Start date | App. deadline EU/EEA | App. deadline Non-EU/EEA |
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| 1 Sep '25 | 1 Jun '25 | - |
