M.Planning (Urban Planning) Admission 2021 & Top Colleges

• It is a 2 years’ post graduate program in urban planning.
• Urban planning is the branch of architecture that includes the designing of urban space and city planning.
• Being an urban planner your responsibility would be interacting with people, developed urban areas, influence environmental sustainability, and many similar works.
• It covers topics like city planning, housing, landscape design,  computer-aided design, techniques of planning, planning theory, traffic and transportation planning, visual and urban design etc. 
• This course is specialized in Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Planning, Transportation planning, housing, city planning and infrastructure planning.
• Through this course, you can enhance your knowledge and skills in recourses planning, Spatial Planning, and development of cities, rural area, transport etc.
• Under this course, you will study about urban design, history of human settlement & planning principles, housing & community plan, transportation planning, urban infrastructure planning, Urban Ecology & environment plan. 
• To attain this course, you must have completed your graduation in architecture with 50% marks. 
• After completing this course, you can find employment in Urban planning and design bodies, environmental and transport planning consultancies, property development companies etc. 

Admission procedure 

• You can get admission into this course by clearing an entrance exam NATA, conducted by Council of Architecture every year. 
• Various colleges offer admission into this course through this entrance exam only. 
• After clearing the entrance exam, you will be called for the counseling process. 
• The final selection of the candidate will be on the basis of their skills and knowledge in the respective field.

Career prospect

• This sector brings a lot of career opportunity for your in both private and government firm. 
• You can be hired as town planner, project manager, planning advisor/consultants, planning manager etc.
• After completing this course, you can find employment in Urban planning and design bodies, environmental and transport planning consultancies, property development companies etc.