MA Urban Design

About the course

1 year full-time/2 years part-time

Designed to meet a growing national and international need for knowledgeable and skilled urban design professionals, this course provides the crucial link between individual architectural projects and overall planning strategies.

You'll develop exceptional design skills that will relate to a broader social, environmental and economic context.

Entry requirements

You'll need a 2:1 honours degree or an equivalent qualification related to design in the built environment, including architecture, landscape architecture and town planning. We'd also like to see your presentation portfolio.

If you have a non-design based degree but substantial professional design experience, then we'll consider your application.

English language requirements

Overall IELTS grade of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component or equivalent.

Entry requirements for international students

Core modules

• Urban Design Projects 1, 2 and 3 (Final Thesis Project)
• Participation in Architecture and Urban Design
• History and Theory of Urban Design
• Reflection on Urban Design Practice

Optional modules

• Analysing Urban Context
• Interactive Urban Visualisation Modelling
• Advanced Study and Research Methods 1
• Public Participation

Teaching

• Studio-based design work with individual and group tutorials
• Block seminars and workshops
• Traditional lecture modules
• Live projects involving real clients and real community projects

Assessment

• Course assignments
• Examinations
• Design thesis
• A dissertation

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

E: pg-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 0310/0309

Advance your career

You could become a professional architect in an international leading-edge practice like many of our past graduates.

Employers include the Olympic Park Legacy Company, Hawkins Brown, Renzo Piano Building Workshop and URBED (Urbanism, Environment & Design) Ltd.

With a post-qualification degree, you could move on to a senior position or follow further academic research and teaching.

Post-qualification masters

All our post-qualification masters courses are available as part of the PhD with Integrated Studies programme offered by the School of Architecture, providing an appropriate entry-level one-year preparation for doctoral research.

Learn from experts

You'll be joining one of the largest and most diverse groups of full-time architecture academics in the country. Our staff have backgrounds in many areas, including the arts, physical and social sciences and engineering.

This connects our research to other disciplines and creates a stimulating environment, leading to a vigorous and critical debate about the future of architecture.

Explore your ideas

You'll find all the tools you'll need. We have design studios, traditional lecture and seminar areas, research rooms, specialised laboratories and computing facilities. There are also specialist architecture resources in the University library.

You'll be able to access our own technical workshop, photographic and audio-visual unit, a range of specialist lighting, acoustic and thermal environmental assessment and experimental facilities, and a postgraduate common room.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form