Urban Planning

 

If you are interested in Korea’s urban development and necessary measures to manage rapid urbanization, then I highly recommend to study at a Korean university. This list is far from complete and everyone has different definitions about urban planning. I tried to include good universities for geography, urban planning,

Seoul National University

Department of Geography

The department of geography at Seoul National University offers a specialization in urban geography. There is a good variety of classes from the department and other departments as well to choose from. The academic standards are very high.

Department of Geography (English)

Graduate School of Environmental Studies

This graduate school is divided into the Department of Environmental Planning and the Department of Landscape Architecture. Possible majors are urban design, urban and regional planning, environmental studies and landscape architecture. In difference to other graduate schools at Seoul National University, the GSES is a professional graduate school. Many of the students have work experience in the related fields and the classes have besides a high degree of academic task also always a practical orientation.

Graduate School of Environmental Studies

Yonsei University

In the College of Engineering you can find the Department of Urban Planning and Engineering.

Department of Urban Planning and Engineering (Korean)

Hanyang University

Regarding undergraduate programs, there are a couple of majors with a connection to urban planning in the College of Engineering: architecture, architectural engineering, civil and environmental engineering and urban planning. You can find more information on the following pages:

Division of Architectural Engineering (English)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (English)

Department of Urban Planning and Engineering (English)

The Hanyang University has a Graduate School of Urban Studies. There are two programs available: First, the Department of Urban Planning.Management and Transportation Planning offers majors in urban planning and development management as well as in urban studies and SOC planning. Second, the Department of Urban Architectural Design and Landscape Architecture has the two majors urban and architectural design and landscape urbanism.

Graduate School of Urban Studies (English)

Website of Graduate School of Urban Studies (Korean)

University of Seoul

They have a college and graduate school about urban science. It covers a wide range of majors for undergraduate studies: urban administration, urban sociology, geo-informatics, architecture, architectural engineering, urban planning and design, transportation engineering (covered in Transportation), landscape architecture and environmental engineering.

Overview of all departments at the College of Urban Science (English)

Overview (Korean)

Links to each department’s homepage (Korean)

The UOS has no PhD courses in their Graduate School of Urban Science but a number of Master programs. You can do a Master in most of the majors offered in undergraduate. Besides that there are urban administration, public administration, social welfare, environmental policy, transportation management (covered in Transportation), disaster prevention engineering, tourism culture and civil engineering as majors for Master.

This university has a good reputation in the field of urban studies. Especially the department of urban engineering has a great faculty with some very important and influential professors.

Faculty of Urban Engineering at UOS (Korean)

Kyunghee Universit]

Department of Geography

The geography department at the KHU was rated as the best geography department in Korea. It has undergraduate and graduate courses (Master and PhD).

Here, graduate students have to choose among physical geography, human geography and GIS as main research area.

Introduction of Geography Department (English)

Website of Geography Department (Korean)

 

This isn’t a complete list of universities and majors related to urban planning in Korea. If you want to add a Korean university, please contact us. Any questions regarded studying urban studies in Korea can be discussed with other readers in the Kojects forum.

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