Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning

• Benefit from our long-standing history - with 60 years' experience, we're Australia's longest provider of planning education.
• You may gain real-world experience when you complete a work placement in a planning department, working alongside professional planners.
• Be taught by world-class leaders in research - UniSA's research in urban and regional planning is ranked world class1.
• Develop practical skills in our dedicated studio room, exclusively for urban and regional planning students.
• Have the opportunity to participate in an international study trip.

Planners work at local, national and international levels and are involved in a range of professional activities, including environmental, social, heritage, transport and community planning, and urban design. Planners often find employment with councils. This degree opens up excellent career opportunities for graduates - in fact, employment prospects for planners is expected to rise by 14.7 percent through until November 20201. You may be involved in:

• planning and designing new towns and suburbs
• energy efficient housing
• new public transport services
• the protection of heritage buildings and landscapes
• coastal planning
• planning of healthy cities
• regeneration of run down or abandoned former industrial areas
• development regional and rural communities

1 Australian Government Department of Employment, Occupational Employment Projections 2015