About Course
Urban and Regional Planning is the art and science of ordering land use development for the social, economic and political benefits of the population. It is concerned with formulation, design implementation and monitoring of development policy through spatial planning at the local, regional and national levels. Urban and Regional Planning is offered as a broad-based discipline that, apart from its main core courses, takes a lot of input from other fields, especially the social sciences. Graduates from the programme can be employed in public and private Planning Agencies, Financial Institutions, International Organisations and Environmental Units of any organisation. They can also be self-employed.
Applicants are required to have 5 O-level Credits including;
- English Language,
- Mathematics,
- Physics,
- Chemistry,
- Biology and Agricultural Science at not more than two sittings.
- Building control surveyor
- Historic buildings inspector/conservation officer
- Housing manager/officer
- Local government officer
- Town planner
- Transport planner
- Urban designer