Master of Urban Design
RMIT University
Program Overview
Focus on design
You will focus intensively on the practice of design itself, developing advanced, specialised techniques for creative and collaborative work. Projects are curated around key sites of urban change locally and globally and engage with the professional and community networks invested in their future.
You will learn to creatively integrate expertise from related urban disciplines into design proposals, promoting alternative models for future city-building. This program is designed to nurture designers who would like to advance their career and develop innovative approaches to their practice.
What will future cities look like?
Urban Design is one of the key practices confronting critical issues affecting cities, such as the impacts of climate change, population growth, shifting workplaces, and transformations in industry, technology and infrastructure.
This masters degree at RMIT provides you with a studio-based, multidisciplinary environment to engage these issues through project-based study.
You will learn to creatively integrate expertise from related urban disciplines into design proposals, promoting alternative modesl for future city-building. This degree is designed to nurture designers who would like to advance their career and develop innovative approaches to their practice.
Melbourne, Australia
24 Months
AU$ 46,920
IELTS: 6.5 TOEFL: 79
Year One of Program
Complete the following Four (4) Courses:
- Urban Design Studio 1
- Asian Urbanism
- Urban Design Studio 2
- Urban Design Professional Practice
Year Two of Program
Complete the following Six (6) Courses:
- Urban Design Studio 3
- Case Studies in Urban Design
- Urban Design Studio 4
- Urbanism: History and Theory
- Urban Design Studio 5
- Eco-Urban Practices
Academic requirements
You must have successfully completed an Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent overseas qualification) in architectural design, landscape architecture or an equivalent design related discipline.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisite subjects required for entry into this qualification.
Selection tasks
You must include with your application:
- a personal statement outlining your motivation for application for the program (maximum 300 words).
- a digital folio - see below
Short-listed applicants may be required to attend an interview.
Digital folio
Your folio should include a package of images, drawings, sketches, paintings, models, photographs, computer work, etc. of personal creative or design projects as well as concepts or ideas that lead to the final design piece. Digital folios must be formatted as an A3 or A4 size PDF document.
The digital folio should be a maximum of 30 pages submitted as a single PDF and should not exceed 10MB. If your folio is hosted online, please supply a URL (provide the username and password if applicable).
The annual tuition fee is AU$46,920.
Urban designers work on large-scale urban projects in collaboration with other professionals (architects, landscape architects, urban planners, developers) and government.