Oxford Brookes University
School of Planningl

Oxford Brookes University is a large and Well established centre of research, education and post-experience and mid-career training. The School of Planning is internationally recognised as a centre of excellence in its field. With nearly 50 teaching and research staff, it is one of the largest schools in Europe with an extensive array of undergraduate and especially postgraduate courses in Planning, Housing Management, Urban Design, Historic Conservation, Transport Planning, and Environmental Assessment and Management.

The School of Planning has offered Graduate courses specialising in planning since 1966. The courses have been continually improved and have also formed the basis for a whole family of related graduate courses.

The School is a major centre for research. In the national three-yearly research ranking exercise in 1993, the School of Planning was one of the highest ranked of the 32 schools or departments in planning and allied subjects. The School has received the highest possible ranking for ESRC Research Studentships and for its teaching quality assessed by government inspectors at the last assessment in 1991.

The School of Planning has a large and lively graduate division offering taught and research based qualifications in planning and, jointly with the School of Architecture, in the Joint Centre for Urban Design (JCUD). Comprising some 400 students, we offer a range of professionally recognised graduate level diplomas, specialist masters degrees and research opportunities at MPhil/PhD level.

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