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Joint HES-SO / UNIGE Urban and Regional Planning

hes-so.chMaster HES-SO Master Programmes Joint HES-SO / UNIGE Urban and Regional Planning

This joint Master HES⁠-⁠SO -UNIGE offers advanced training in the fields of urban planning, geomatics, landscape architecture and territorial development, in both the North and South.

The programme at a glance

  • Degree awarded

    Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning

  • Admission requirements

    • Bachelor's degree from a university of applied sciences in the field of landscape architecture, geomatics, territorial engineering, architecture, engineering, environment, civil engineering, energy and environmental techniques or equivalent.

    • University degree or EPF in political science, sociology, ethnology/anthropology, law, geography, economics, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, environment, ecology or equivalent.  

    The validation of a complementary program (co-requisite/pre-requisite) may be required for students holding a degree with no explicit relation to territorial development.

  • Application

    Applications are closed. Late application period from May 1 to 31, 2025, subject to availability, only for holders of a Bachelor of Science in the field of landscape architecture or geomatics engineering delivered by a Swiss university of applied sciences. Click here >>

    Applications can only be made for the Landscape Architecture and Geomatics Engineering majors of the Master's degree which is consecutive to the Bachelor of Science title.

    For any questions : admissions.master(at)hes-so.ch

  • Location

    HES-SO Master - Lausanne
    UNIGE - Geneva
    HEPIA - Geneva
    HEIG-VD - Yverdon-les-Bains

  • Type

    Full time or part time

  • Duration

    Full time : 4 semesters - 6 semesters maximum
    Part time : 6 semesters - 8 semesters maximum

  • ECTS credits

    120 ECTS credits

  • Language

    Mainly in French

  • Fees

    Registration fee: CHF 150
    Tuition fee: CHF 500/semester
    Study costs: CHF 250/semester

    Starting in the Fall semester of 2025:

    For Swiss students (as defined by AHES, this refers to students of Swiss nationality or those fiscally domiciled in Switzerland), a semester costs CHF 950, which includes:

    CHF 700: tuition fee
    CHF 250: contribution to study costs for certain services

    Application fee to be paid upon submission of the application: CHF 150

    For foreign students (those considered foreign under the AHES agreement are individuals of foreign nationality who do not have their fiscal domicile in Switzerland at the time of enrollment), a semester costs CHF 1300, which includes:

    CHF 1050: tuition fee
    CHF 250: contribution to study costs for certain services

    Application fee to be paid upon submission of the application: CHF 150

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About HES-SO Master

Master thesis

Urban and Regional Planning (MDT)

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  • Témoignages

Course

This course has been set up in partnership with the Faculty of Sciences and Society at the University of Geneva, under an agreement signed by the two institutions. For the UAS, it is a Master’s programme aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at Bachelor’s students from the Engineering and Architecture faculty.

The course allows students to acquire skills applicable to territories that are currently facing ever-more complex challenges, in demographic (increasing urbanisation), ecological (increasingly frequent environmental crises), economic (increasing scarcity of public funds and rising land prices) or institutional terms (the appearance of new layers of governance and increasing numbers of actors).

There are also democratic and social issues. These constantly changing and increasingly intricate contexts need new forms of intervention and appropriate tools, now more than ever. The complexity of urban and spatial problems needs a new generation of competent, trained professionals, who are skilled in interdisciplinary working and understand territorial issues in their entirety, in order to provide effective, long-term solutions.

Major

Landscape Architecture Urban Planning and Design Land Management Geomatics Engineering Territorial Development in Global South

Partner schools

Témoignages

Contact

Pierre-Henri Bombenger
Co-head of the Master in Urban and Regional Planning
HES-SO Master
Av. de Provence 6
1007 Lausanne
T + 41 58 900 00 00
mdt@hes-so.ch

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