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20 Master's degrees in Urban Planning in Germany
If you're considering studying Urban Planning in Germany, you'll find a range of tuition fees. The lower-end tuition fee, represented by €723, offers an affordable option for many students. On the other hand, the higher-end tuition fee, indicated by €15,750, reflects the premium programmes available. The typical tuition fee, shown by €3,000, provides a good benchmark for what most students can expect to pay.
Germany is known for its affordable education, and this is reflected in the 27% of affordable Urban Planning programmes. Additionally, with 1% of programmes being offered online, students have the flexibility to choose a learning format that suits them best.
Urban Planning is a popular field of study in Germany, with 4% of universities offering programmes in this discipline. This wide availability ensures that students have plenty of options to choose from, whether they prefer a specific location, teaching style, or programme focus.

Architecture - Design for the Built Environment
Building in the context of history and identity as well as social change, climate change, and resource scarcity brings numerous challenges to architects. Learn more about Europe's cultural heritage in Architecture - Design for the Built Environment course from SRH University – shape the future of architecture and the city.

Business Engineering in Urban Mobility
The Business Engineering in Urban Mobility master's programme at EIT Urban Mobility Master School offers comprehensive, project-based training in innovating and transforming business models in urban mobility. Covering all modes of transport, it teaches you to design sustainable, user-centric solutions and leverage data for optimised mobility systems and logistics.

Urbanism - Concepts for the Built Environment
Learn more about current and future challenges in urban development in a multidisciplinary study environment. Analyse and design based on practical projects, e.g. with local authorities with this Urbanism - Concepts for the Built Environment course from SRH University.
European Urban Studies
The European Urban Studies programme offered by Bauhaus University Weimar addresses current challenges of cities in Europe. It is motivated by the general insight in the significance of cities for progress in Europe. Cities are the place for concrete solutions for problems from all fields of everyday life and the place for sustaining democracy.
Urban Design
At the TU Berlin, Urban Design as a unique discipline with a clear professional focus and a transdisciplinary syllabus. Architects and urban, regional, and landscape planners can often not truly do justice to the complex tasks of urban development with their specific expertise and skills.
Sustainable Urban Development
The Joint Degree Master Programme Sustainable Urban Development is a full-time Master Programme at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Ho Chi Minh City and the Darmstadt University of Technology.
Urban Agglomerations
The Urban Agglomerations MSc program offered at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences is organized and implemented in cooperation with renowned international partner universities for an exchange course during the third semester.
Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design
The Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design course is a Master’s degree program offered by the University of Stuttgart in cooperation with Ain Shams University in Cairo.
Infrastructure Planning
The program focuses on an integrated approach to planning and brings together students with an architecture/urban planning background from their bachelor studies with civil engineers.
Transformation of Urban Landscapes
This Transformation of Urban Landscapes degree programme at Ruhr University Bochum is unique because as an intercultural and interdisciplinary “school of thought”, it communicates transformation competencies that help student to influence the development of urban landscapes in a sustainable manner.
Transforming City Regions
Transforming City Regions (TCR) from RWTH Aachen University is a unique, interdisciplinary Master program with a strong focus on the European dimension in territorial development. This course of study was designed to respond to the environmental, social, technological, and economic challenges facing evolving European cities and regions.
SPRING - Regional Development Planning and Management
SPRING - Regional Development Planning and Management is a two-year Master´s degree programme from TU Dortmund University that addresses current topics of spatial planning in developing and emerging countries.
Urban Ecosystem Sciences
The Urban Ecosystem Sciences at TU Berlin trains you to become a specialized expert and researcher, able to develop intelligent and sustainable concepts for the urban environment.
Spatial Planning
The Master of Science in Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University is a two-semester-program which welcomes especially students from the fields of urban and regional planning, spatial planning, and urban design.
Geomatics Engineering (GeoEngine)
The Geomatics Engineering (GeoEngine) program from University of Stuttgart provides an advanced education and training for students with a Bachelor of Science degree (or comparable) in Geodesy, Photogrammetry, or Surveying Engineering. Graduates from programs similar in scope of study may be accepted subject to individual assessment.
Architecture
The Architecture programme of University of Liechtenstein reflects the diverse and complex challenges facing architecture as a socially responsible profession today. An understanding of and an active engagement with cultural sustainability are at the heart of its curriculum.
Integrated Urban Development and Design - Reflective Urban Practice
The Integrated Urban Development and Design - Reflective Urban Practice programme offered by Bauhaus University Weimar is fostering the knowledge transfer to and out of the praxis at its long-standing international Model Project Partners since 1999.
Urban Management
The internationally recognized Master of Science Degree in Urban Management from TU Berlin is awarded on the successful completion of the Urban Management program.
Sustainable Systems Engineering
The English-taught master’s degree program Sustainable Systems Engineering at University of Freiburg with its international focus is addressed in particular to graduates with a bachelor's degree in engineering or natural sciences.
Urban Design and Sustainable Revitalization
The Master's program in Urban Design and Sustainable Revitalization at The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg welcomes motivated students from Germany and around the world. Interested applicants should have a bachelor's degree in architecture, urban and regional planning, urban design, landscape architecture or related disciplines.