ADMISSIONS
Master of Urban Planning
APPLICATION TIMELINE (AUG 2025 INTAKE)
There is one intake per academic year. Applications to the Master of Urban Planning programme for the August 2025 intake is now open from 1 October 2024 to 28 February 2025. For early consideration, students should aim to submit their applications by 30 November 2024, and outstanding candidates can expect to receive an offer as early as January 2025. Applicants who submit after December 2024 can expect to receive offers in March and April 2025.
While most offers will be made to early applications by March 2025, some may still receive an offer at a later date. The Department takes care to look at the applications as a cohort and will review all submitted applications together where necessary.
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ADMISSION ELIGIBILITY
For admission as a candidate for the Master of Urban Planning programme, a person must have obtained one of the following qualifications prior to enrolment:
- A Bachelor’s degree or above in a spatial design discipline (architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning) or a related field of study (environmental studies, geography, real estate, civil engineering, land management, etc.), OR
- A Bachelor’s degree or above in other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences that actively engage urban issues.
Relevant professional experience will be considered favorably in the selection process.
SUBMISSION MATERIALS
The application should comprise the following:
– Official transcripts from all undergraduate or graduate studies attended. The cumulative grade ranking should be included in the transcripts if it is available at the applicant’s institution.
– A detailed curriculum vitae with no more than two A4 pages.
– Project portfolio that showcases applicant’s representative work in urban planning or other aspects of the design of the built environment.
– Portfolio is required for applicants from the spatial design disciplines (architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning).
– Applicants from non-design disciplines are not required to submit a portfolio. Providing other evidence relevant to urban planning and design skills, practices and research is encouraged.
– Each portfolio should be in PDF format with no more than 20 pages of A4 (210mm x 297mm) size. Please note that in the online admission system, the total size of your uploaded documents should not exceed 10 MB.
– For each project, please declare the project duration; nature of project (e.g. academic, competition, professional, external workshops); names of all collaborators; and the instructors / employers (names, position, and affiliations).
– Please ensure that all work in your portfolio meets the highest standards of academic integrity. Please state clearly the applicant’s contribution for any group or professional work and cite any text or images that were not produced by the applicant.
– Evidence of relevant professional experience, including internships (if any).
– A Statement of Purpose of no more than 1000 words.
– Two letters of reference
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Applicants whose first language is not English are required to demonstrate their English proficiency by means of TOEFL / IELTS test scores. This requirement may be waived if applicants have completed their degree programme taught entirely in English, situated in an English speaking country, for example (non exhaustive list) Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA.
To meet the English requirement for the MUP programme, the minimum score expected is:
– IELTS: A minimum 6.5 overall band score (no less than 6 for each section).
– TOEFL iBT (at a test centre)/Home Edition: A minimum score of 92 (no less than 23 for each subsection).
– TOEFL iBT Paper Edition: A minimum score of 580.
INTERVIEW
Shortlisted candidates may be invited to appear for an interview. Where an applicant is not based in Singapore, the interview will take place via video call.
For latest updates on application deadlines, detailed application instructions, application fees and FAQs, please visit the college’s admission website: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/graduate/graduate-programmes-by-coursework/application-to-graduate-coursework-programmes/
