MSc Development Administration and Planning

The normal minimum qualifications are an upper second-class UK Bachelor's degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, or a lower second-class UK Bachelor's degree, or an equivalent overseas qualification, in a subject appropriate to the programme, plus relevant work experience. In rare cases, applicants with degrees below this standard will be considered if they have significant relevant professional experience. In all cases, successful applicants are expected to provide good references and a strong personal statement, which adequately demonstrate the applicant’s interest in the topics addressed by this programme.

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94% of graduates from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit were in work or further study 15 months after graduation and are working in 52 countries around the world (HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2017-23).

Compulsory modules

• Critical Ideas of Development: Conceptions and Realities
• Contemporary Approaches to Development Management
• Development in Practice
• Society and Market: Private Agency for Development
• Development and Planning Dissertation
• Representing Development in the Cultural Archive
• Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives
• Critical Urban Theory and Design
• Housing as Urbanism: Housing Policy and the Search for Scale
• Housing Policies: Practical Dimensions and Alternative Options
• Managing the City Economy
• The Political Ecology of Environmental Change
• Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development
• Adapting Cities to Climate Change in the Global South
• Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development
• Food and the City
• The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning
• Urban Development Policy, Planning and Management: Strategic Action in Theory and Practice
• Transport Equity and Urban Mobility
• Social Diversity, Inequality and Poverty
• Communication, Technologies and Social Power
• Urbanisation and Development
• An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy
• Health, Social Justice and the City 1
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 1
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 2
• Health, Social Justice and the City 2
• Gender in Policy and Planning
• Economic Policy Evaluation Tools

Optional modules

• Representing Development in the Cultural Archive
• Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives
• Critical Urban Theory and Design
• Housing as Urbanism: Housing Policy and the Search for Scale
• Housing Policies: Practical Dimensions and Alternative Options
• Managing the City Economy
• The Political Ecology of Environmental Change
• Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development
• Adapting Cities to Climate Change in the Global South
• Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development
• Food and the City
• The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning
• Urban Development Policy, Planning and Management: Strategic Action in Theory and Practice
• Transport Equity and Urban Mobility
• Social Diversity, Inequality and Poverty
• Communication, Technologies and Social Power
• Urbanisation and Development
• An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy
• Health, Social Justice and the City 1
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 1
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 2
• Health, Social Justice and the City 2
• Gender in Policy and Planning
• Economic Policy Evaluation Tools
• overseas practice engagement