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Planning & Sustainable Development UCC

  • 02-02-2009 5:22pm
    #1
    4arc
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭


    hi,

    I'am considering applying for the master's in Planning and Sustainable Development at UCC. I was wondering has anyone done this course or the MRUP in UCD.

    I know its a new course, is it being run well? what are the facilities like?
    Whats the course like? workload, hours etc..?
    What are the career prospects in the planning sector like these days?
    How dependent on the construction industry is it? what other areas are graduates able to follow?

    thanks in advance!
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  • #2
    jimboddb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭jimboddb


    If your interested in doing planning it has to be ucd. I worked with the guy running the ucc one & know some of the lecturers and havent heard great reviews to be honest. Its also very expensive for what was/is a poorly run masters programme. Very few jobs in the sector now as well im afraid.


  • #3
    4arc
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭4arc


    The MRUP is abouut €1600 more expensive than UCC per year!
    Graduates would possess the same qualification though?

    Couldn't stand another two years in Richview though!


  • #4
    iarmhii
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭iarmhii


    Hi All,


    Just wondering if this course is worthwhile doing and if anyone has any knowledge of types of jobs past students can progressed to ? Is it mainly focused on planning issues?


  • #5
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    To be honest I'd stay away from planning at the moment. I looked into it in my final year but I'm glad I stayed away from it. A lot of planners in Ireland work in the public sector but there is a public sector recruitment embargo on at the moment. Add to that the massive slump in construction and the very probable slashing of infratsructural spending in the budget and you don't get a nice picture. I'm not sure how things are for planners in private practice (probably not good) or abroad.

    2 guys from my year did the planning masters in UCC. They graduated last year, both are working...just not in planning or anything related to it. The course is 2 years long and the fees are also quite large. I did my masters in the UK and I knew a few Irish people at the university that were doing planning. Again, none of them are working in planning.


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