It is the job of urban and regional planners to recognise the possibilities and restraints of urban and regional development, to find solutions for concrete problems and shape strategies for sustained development. This entails knowledge of conceptual design.

Training involves teaching a competent approach to planning issues as well as technical knowledge and proficiency in spatial thinking. Learning the feasibility, transfer and co-ordination of ideas at administrative level, as well as with experts and laypeople is also important for the profession.

Practice and research oriented three-year study course

• Instruction in scientific and practice-relevant methods, expertise and skills
• Instruction in key skills such as teamwork, presentation techniques and rhetoric.
• Students learn to work independently on project designs

The Bachelor degree is a prerequisite for enrolment on the Masters course for Urban and Regional Planning at the BTU Cottbus and for related courses of study at other universities.

With this degree the student is qualified for vocational work. The primary aim is the attainment of the competence to successfully manage, under supervision, the standard tasks of research and practice.

"For our cities to grow in a different way than they are now, we would first have to feel responsible for and affected by them. But cities will not become more appealing until we have thought about them with passion."

(Alexander Mitscherlich)