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Queen's University Belfast

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Undergraduate 2027

Undergraduate 2025

BSc | Undergraduate

Planning, Environment and Development

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Entry year : Academic Year 2027/28

Entry requirements : BBB

Attendance : 3 years (Full-time) \

UCAS Code : K430

Planning is about changing the places within which we live. How we can transform and improve our cities, towns, villages, neighbourhoods and communities. It affects our everyday lives and is an exciting discipline to study at university.\ \ A planning degree provides students with the knowledge and skills to be able to make decisions that shape the processes of growth and development. We currently face many urban challenges – attracting investment, creating jobs, protecting the environment, energy policy, housing supply, transport links, providing local amenities – and planning affects how these things happen. Therefore, as future planners you will have an important role to play in shaping the future.\ \ Planning is a broad subject matter and planners perform different roles relating to the natural, physical, economic, social and cultural environments that we live in. Given this, planning offers a wide range of employment opportunities. Studying planning will equip you with the knowledge to understand how cities, towns, villages, communities and neighbourhoods function and operate, and then have the skills to make decisions that shape how they grow and prosper.

Planning at Queen's is ranked 1st for satisfaction in teaching in the 2023 National Student Survey (NSS).

Course highlights

Professional Accreditations

This degree is accredited by two professional bodies: the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI, partial/spatial accreditation) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). For full RTPI accreditation, graduates would need to complete a specialist accreditation qualification (e.g., an accredited MSc programme)."

As well as including employers in our teaching and development of projects we value the input of practitioners on our examination panels. Our employer links are further enhanced through formal partnership meetings with our accreditation bodies (RICS and RTPI) and by providing student prizes, for example, for the best independent research project. Therefore, course development is closely aligned to the requirements of the planning sector.

Employers are often also consulted by students in the development of the independent research project. For example we have developed strong relationships in Northern Ireland with the Housing Executive, and the Planning Division of the Department of Infrastructure as well as key employers in private sector planning consultancies. As part of the support activities embedded in the degree, employers contribute to regular careers events.

Student Experience

The BSc in Planning, Environment and Development includes an optional year-long Industrial Placement between Years 2 and 3 of the course, which is recognised on your final transcript. This affords students the opportunity to enhance their skills development in a workplace setting. The placement may be paid or unpaid. You won’t need to make a final decision on whether or not you want to explore this option until year two.

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