Infrastructure Planning - MIP: University of Stuttgart

A well-planned system of infrastructure facilities is the primary prerequisite for development. On the international level there is a pressing need for professionals capable of directing the conception, planning and construction of necessary infrastructure facilities for transport, water and waste management on the urban as well as at the regional level of integrating economic, social, ecological and management aspects. With the Master of Science in Infrastructure Planning, the Universität Stuttgart has offered a practice-oriented and internationally acclaimed Master's programme since 1983.

Faculty members of 13 different institutes and experienced practitioners offer their knowledge to a limited number of 30 students per course. Emphasis is on an interdisciplinary approach to planning, which is essential for modern infrastructure planning and international cooperation.

Modules offered include:

• Statistics and Information Processing
• Economics
• Social Aspects of Planning
• Project Management
• Development Policy and Planning
• Urban Planning
• Ecological Aspects of Infrastructure Planning
• Regional Development Planning
• Energy Supply
• Transportation
• Water and Waste Management
• Project Appraisal
• Planning and Financing
• Integrated Case Study, etc.

Civil engineers, architects and town planners who wish to gain insight into infrastructure planning in a broad, integrated context and who want to prepare themselves for work in international and complex planning projects are the target group of the Master's Programme Infrastructure Planning. Graduates will be capable of directing and co-ordinating the work of international and interdisciplinary teams of specialists from a wide variety of infrastructure-related fields. Career goals might be: an infrastructure planner working in the private sector as a consultant, civil servant dealing with various aspects of infrastructure planning or with regional and/or national infrastructure development. Experience shows that graduates are sought-after as experts in fields of infrastructure planning who have sufficient insight into most other aspects of infrastructure planning and are capable of holding leading positions in the decision making level of important international or national projects of infrastructure development.