The Bachelor of Planning has been designed to enable students to succeed in their chosen area of planning.  It draws on the University's broadly based expertise and provides a comprehensive and innovative planning program with distinctive strengths in community planning and project development.  The course focuses on the application of the quadruple bottom line with its emphasis on environmental, social, economic and governance accountability within a framework of sustainability.

Students choose one of the following Majors:

1. Environmental and Physical Planning
2. Policy and Governance
3. Project Development
4. Community Planning and Development 

These majors contain units from schools in the Faculty of Business and Law, Faculty of Computing, Health and Science, and the Faculty of Education and Arts.  This range of units reflects the multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary nature of the planning profession.

Students who are unable to complete the four-year Bachelor of Planning award may be eligible to exit with a Diploma of Planning or Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning having completed the appropriate units with course coordinator approval.

Standard University admission requirements apply.

The Bachelor of Planning degree requires a minimum of 480 credit points (32 unit equivalent) and requires four years of full-time study or the part-time equivalent.

The degree has the following main components:

1. A core program of 360 credit points (24 units equivalent); and
2. A Major program of 120 credit points  (8 units);