Pioneer Planning School in Bangladesh

Urban and Rural Planning Discipline (URPD) is the first planning school in Bangladesh for undergraduate level education. It is one of the four Disciplines with which Khulna University started its academic programmes.URPD was established in Khulna University in 1991 with a view to producing qualified planners that Bangladesh severely lacks. Urban and Rural Planning is an interdisciplinary field of study which aims at producing skilled practitioners imbued with the most up-to-date planning techniques. It offers four years Bachelor Degree, two years Master Degree, and PhD in Planning. The ongoing degree programmes focus on creating a sense on contemporary patterns of urban and rural development, and the processes that contribute to change across cities and rural areas.URPD promises to offer both planning and development solutions to manage human activities encompassing the social, political, cultural, economic, and technological factors into an interdisciplinary framework.The academic programmes provide opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate the knowledge and understanding in conducting professional activities in major streams of urban and rural development planning.

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Prof. Dr. Md. Zakir Hossain

URPD has recently celebrated its 25 years in offering world class planning education, in conducting research, and in providing consultancy support to different national and international organisations with the application of sophisticated tools and techniques. The faculties have acquired varied skills and expertise in different fields of knowledge and have achieved higher education from reputed universities from UK, Australia, Japan, North America, and Europe. Based on the academic excellence, the faculties have initiated and successfully completed various research projects covering a wide range of areas like rural livelihood, food security, urban services delivery, rural development, land use management, and climate change and disaster management.Department's pedagogically innovative combination of interdisciplinary course curriculum, sessional exercises, seminars, and independent study, coupled with a relatively small student size drawn for each academic year in undergraduate and graduate degree programme create an intimate and engaged educational atmosphere in which students thrive and learn. Our students have been showing demonstrated success over public, private and international development agencies across the globe for years. Students entering at undergraduate and graduate degree programme find a lively and interactive environment which coupled with the multi-disciplinary education system prevailing in the discipline leads them to become skilled and motivated practitioners in the government accredited planning exercises and welfare based social development sectors in both home and abroad. Now, the discipline would like to engage more in international knowledge exchange platform to be connected as a global hub of planning education. Located in a global south city and in the coastal zone of Bangladesh, this discipline will be able to offer different research and academic collaborations. As the head of the discipline, I would like to offer different development partners, academic institutions and research organisations a strategic partnership for collaborative knowledge production.Contact:Mobile: +8801992644569email: [email protected]  

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URP Signs MoU with BRAC

URP Signs MoU with BRAC

Urban and Rural Planning Discipline of Khulna University signed MoU with BRAC on 27 December 2023. The purpose of this MOU is to foster a collaborative effort aimed at sharing knowledge and technical expertise horizontally would prove mutually advantageous for the parties in addressing the...
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Call for Application to Participate in the Training Programme on Mixed Methods Research and Decision Making

Call for Application to Participate in the Training Programme on Mixed Methods Research and Decision Making

Urban and Rural Planning Discipline of Khulna University in partnership with Social Science Research Council of Ministry of Planning of GoB is going to conduct a training programme on Mixed Methods Research and Decision Making with 'Arc GIS' for Spatial Data Analysis and 'R' & 'NVivo' f...
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