Master of Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology

Our Master of Urban Design equips you with concepts and skills that will future-proof your career as an urban designer, project manager or urban planner. Graduates from our Master of Architecture and Urban Design can also pursue careers in architecture. Urban Design is about shaping urban environments across a range of scales - from individual buildings and streets to neighbourhoods, suburbs and entire cities and their wider regions. Through a future-focused, design-led approach, you'll gain in-depth knowledge of how transport, community, environment, economy and policy fit together to make the healthy, inclusive, culturally-significant and sustainable places we can all call home. Use cutting-edge tech to master visual communication and data/urban analytics skills while develop your spatial thinking skills by combining architectural, creative and evidence-based approaches to urban challenges. You'll get to engage with industry experts and tackle real-world issues like designing for the future health, sustainable mobility and resilience of cities.

The Master of Philosophy (MPhil) is a research degree that includes a coursework component designed to help you develop research techniques appropriate to your area of study. The MPhil has the flexibility to be undertaken as a written thesis or as a research by design thesis, (with a proportionally reduced written component.) The program requires submission of either a scholarly written thesis (maximum 40,000 words) or a combined design output and scholarly written component (maximum 20,000 words).