BS Urban and Regional Planning

BS Urban and Regional Planning is a four-year undergraduate degree covering how cities and regions are planned and managed — land use, transport, housing, infrastructure and the policy governing urban growth.

What You’ll Study

Coursework covers urban planning theory and practice, land use planning and zoning, transport planning, housing and settlement policy, urban infrastructure, GIS and spatial analysis, environmental planning, and planning law, usually with studio-based projects.

Career Scope in Pakistan

Pakistan is urbanising rapidly and largely without adequate planning — unregulated sprawl, encroachment on agricultural land, inadequate water and sanitation, congestion and expanding informal settlements are the visible consequences. These are precisely the problems the discipline addresses.

Graduates work with development authorities such as LDA, CDA and provincial equivalents, planning and development consultancies, local government planning departments, real estate and township development, transport planning, GIS roles, and donor-funded urban development programmes. GIS competence materially improves employability, since spatial analysis underpins most modern planning work.

Admission Requirements

Intermediate or an equivalent qualification, plus the admission test used by the university concerned. Check each university’s admissions page for the current cycle.