Bachelor of City Planning (Honours)
University of New South Wales - Sydney - Kensington
Overview
Learn how to shape sustainable, equitable, healthy and inspiring built environments. City planners play a pivotal role in decisions shaping the future of our cities and regions by working at the interface between development and environment. This degree will teach you how to collect and analyse information, identify requirements and options, make forecasts, and prepare policies, plans and programs for implementation.
You will also learn how to exercise development control, investigate development proposals, evaluate results and communicate outcomes. Work experience is a defining feature of the degree, which enjoys longstanding support from both public and private sector organisations. You will work closely with a broad range of partners across the city, state and internationally. You will graduate with the knowledge and skills required to address contemporary planning issues, including sustainability, development feasibility, housing affordability, transport and infrastructure provision, facilitating urban renewal, and tackling social inequality and exclusion.
Read about the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture.
ATAR Profile: Some UNSW offers were issued based on the UNSW Gateway Early Conditional Offer Scheme with a lower ATAR entry requirement. Refer to the Admissions Information for a complete ATAR profile by degree.
Majors
Areas of study
City economics, environmental science, heritage studies, planning history, planning law, planning theory and methodology, sociology, transport planning, urban design.
Potential Career Outcomes
Career opportunities
City planner, strategic planner, environmental planner, land use planner, urban policy and research consultant, urban consultant, development assessment planner. You may also become a specialist in planning law if you study 426000 Bachelor of City Planning (Honours)/Bachelor of Laws.
ATAR & Selection Rank
The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2023.
| ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds | ATAR (excluding adjustment factors) | Selection Rank (including adjustment factors) |
|---|---|---|
| Highest rank to receive an offer | 99.55 | 99.95 |
| Median rank to receive an offer | 84.15 | 88.45 |
| Lowest rank to receive an offer | 73.65 | 78.55 |
<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made
Admission Criteria
Please refer to the University of New South Wales website for admission criteria information.
This information is sourced from Course Seeker, a joint initiative between the Australian Government and the Tertiary Admission Centres. View more information on Course Seeker.
University
University of New South Wales
Campus
Sydney - Kensington
Course Type
Bachelors Honours
Study Area
Fine Art and Design
Indicative ATAR
73.65
Delivery Mode
On-campus
Duration
Full-time: 4 years
Course Link
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- State
- NSW
- Type
- University
- Courses
- 124
- Campuses
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Canberra at ADFA Sydney - Kensington Sydney - Kensington/Online Sydney - Paddington
Please note that these statistics simply refer to the information we have in our database. This is not an exhaustive list of courses offered at University of New South Wales. Please refer to the institution's website for the most current information.
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