Major Overview

Our urban and rural planning major is an interdisciplinary and compound major that aims to cultivate practical talents in urban and rural planning, meeting the needs of urban and rural construction and local economic development. It focuses on teaching content such as urban and rural planning, public policy formulation, and construction implementation management. The major is centered around a high-level faculty team with multidisciplinary backgrounds, supplemented by an externally hired guidance team consisting of renowned design teams and senior engineers in the field. It aims to build a distinctive teaching and research team that aligns with national policy directives such as the professional qualification examination for national land spatial planners and the construction of smart cities. Additionally, it leverages the construction of interdisciplinary platforms like architecture and landscape architecture to form a professional cluster advantage. Relying on numerous practical teaching bases and industry-university-research platforms, it has formed a school-enterprise collaborative education model of "practical training + practice + internship," becoming the first batch of majors to implement the "1+X" certificate pilot program in our school.

Characteristics of Urban and Rural Planning Major

This major aligns with the industries in the Greater Bay Area, following the OBE (Outcome-Based Education) concept of "student-centered, output-oriented, and continuous improvement." It closely aligns with industry needs to construct talent training programs and curriculum systems, focusing on collaborative training between government, schools, and enterprises.

Teaching Conditions

The urban and rural planning major revolves around the "theory + practice" teaching model. To meet the needs of 26 experimental and practical training courses, it is equipped with a "1+5" practical training base. This includes a professional base called the "Future City Experiment Center," equipped with advanced planning and design auxiliary equipment such as holographic projectors, 3D printers, and digitizers. Additionally, there are five professional skill training bases, including a computer-aided design training room, architectural engineering drawing room, prefabricated building technology application research center, BIM new building technology laboratory, and engineering surveying room, creating a digital city simulation space teaching platform.

Meanwhile, to increase students' practical opportunities and improve their professional abilities, the major strengthens industry-university-research cooperation with enterprises. Currently, more than 20 provincial and inter-provincial school-enterprise cooperation platforms have been established, including powerful planning and design institutes and design companies such as Guangdong Urban and Rural Planning and Design Institute, Guangzhou Urban Planning Survey and Design Institute, South China University of Technology Architectural Design and Research Institute, Guangdong Yuejian Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., and Guangdong Guodi Planning and Technology Co., Ltd. These provide strong support for students' internships and practical training.

Employment Prospects

With the integrated development of urban and rural areas, the acceleration of urbanization, and the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, there is an urgent need to cultivate a group of compound and practical talents in urban and rural planning to broaden employment opportunities for the urban and rural planning major in the future.

Graduates can engage in design and management work. In design, they can work in design institutes and companies, specializing in urban land spatial planning, green ecological planning, detailed planning, urban design, architectural design, and landscape design. In management, they can work in national or local planning management departments for urban and rural construction and planning management, policy research, and other related work, as well as urban development work in real estate companies. They can also choose to further their studies by pursuing postgraduate studies or studying abroad, applying for civil service positions, or taking the examination for registered national land spatial planners.

Faculty

The professional teaching team is strong, with dual-qualified talents as the core. There are 17 professional teachers, including 13 full-time teachers, who have innovative educational concepts, strong practical abilities, high academic qualifications, and teaching levels. Among the professional course teachers, 80% have master's degrees or above, 50% have intermediate or higher professional titles, and 30% are national first-level registered architects and planners.