The master’s degree program in Urban Development at Technische Universität Berlin offers advanced education for students and young professionals holding a bachelor’s degree or academic equivalent in architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape planning or a comparable field. The students graduate with a master’s degree from Technische Universität Berlin in Urban Development. Developed on a modular basis, this four-semester master’s degree program meets the requirements of the European Education Ministers’ 1999 Bologna declaration for the European Higher Education Area.
Content and Goals
This master’s degree program was developed to focus on specific aspects of the field of sustainable urban development, urban planning and urban design. It is based on scientific study and methods and highly applied in nature. The program is designed to foster a process-oriented and interdisciplinary approach among students. Program content not only includes current trends and methods, but also complex semester projects in which interdisciplinary teams of students drawn from both this program and the other master’s degree programs in Energy Engineering and Water Engineering, also at the El Gouna site, deal with typical problems in a real-world environment.
This program is rooted in the TU Berlin tradition of being the first German institution to provide a full, dedicated program to educate and train urban planners, which TU Berlin began doing decades ago.
Courses are held by ten chairs and academic departments from TU Berlin, supported by research associates from within the specific departments.
Business and Academic Opportunities
Program participants earn a master’s degree in Urban Development from TU Berlin. Upon graduation, they enjoy outstanding career opportunities in the field of sustainable urban development.
Technische Universität Berlin offers a number of options for postgraduate studies. Exceptional students can work as research associates at TU Berlin or acquire their own research projects. Program graduates are welcome to apply to PhD programs or apply for positions doing research on topics related to the Middle East/North Africa.
Schedules and Characteristics
The master’s degree program in Urban Development begins each winter semester (October – March). The majority of the courses are held at the El Gouna campus, in Egypt. Students spend the second semester in Berlin, an outstanding opportunity to experience Germany’s fascinating capital city and attend courses at the university’s main campus, right in the heart of Berlin. Courses are taught in English. The main focal points of the curriculum are:
- The spectrum of urban and landscape planning and urban design in the fields of sustainable urban development and urban renewal;
- Strategies, concepts and instruments for mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, including approaches such as “low-carbon cities”;
- Technical infrastructure strategies and tools for water supply and wastewater disposal, waste management plus transport planning;
- Strategies and tools used in urban project management and urban economics;
- Economic, social, cultural and legal contexts of urban development and real estate management;
- Soft skills and intercultural competence;
- Development of the ability to solve complex and interdisciplinary problems in three semester projects;
- Practical training in Germany.
The subjects included in the program are required courses, but students also have the opportunity to determine the subject of the master’s thesis individually.
Admission to the master’s degree program in Urban Development is limited to 30 students per year. Students receive extensive mentoring and support from professors and research assistants of TU Berlin. Project groups are small. Due to the spacious campus groups can work in their own project rooms.
Application and Admission
To enroll in the master’s degree program, students are
required to apply.
Applicants for the master’s degree program in Urban Development are required to submit the application form.
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Technische Universität Berlin
Campus El Gouna
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Carnotstr. 1A
10587 Berlin | Germany
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