Administrative Sciences, Sustainable Urban Development, Bachelor and Master of Administrative Sciences (3 + 2 yrs)

About this programme

Are you interested in helping to create the sustainable cities of the future? The world is facing key challenges such as a changing climate, biodiversity loss, social justice issues, and poverty, and cities are key arenas for addressing these challenges. Tampere University’s Sustainable Urban Development Bachelor’s degree programme teaches the new generation of experts to apply multidisciplinary expertise to help address these challenges and develop the sustainable cities of the future. About the Administrative Science specialisation Students in the administrative sciences specialisation study basic and intermediate studies in administrative sciences, developing a broad theoretical understanding of societal change, and applying this understanding to develop solutions to challenges of governance and sustainable urban development. Alongside your administrative sciences specific studies, selected multidisciplinary courses bring you together with students in social sciences and technology specialisations. This helps you understand urban development from several perspectives, develop interdisciplinary thinking skills, and identify novel and constructive ways of solving complex problems. Urban Lab Through a challenge-based Urban Lab course, students are engaged in real-life urban development projects in collaboration with organizations such as the City of Tampere. The course provides students the opportunity to engage with local urban planners, citizens, and organisations to help identify and understand real-world development challenges, and work in interdisciplinary teams to co-create solutions. You can find out more about the Urban Lab in the Tampere University Urban Lab Blog . Opportunities This programme aims to meet the societal, administrative and concrete need for more societal and environmental problem solvers. All students in the administrative specialisation have a study right to continue their studies in the Master’s Programme in Transformative Urban and Regional Governance. Graduates from the administrative science specialisation of the Bachelor's programme have found employment in city organizations responsible for urban development and international affairs, research projects within the academia, and companies focusing on urban planning and public participation. The graduates have been appreciated for their interdisciplinary thinking and interpersonal and group work skills gained during their studies. More Information Please see the description of the two other study fields on the following websites: Social Sciences, Sustainable Urban Development Technology, Sustainable Urban Development All students accepted for this Bachelor’s Programme are automatically given the right to continue their studies for the Master’s degree if they wish to do so. When accepted in the Administrative Sciences, Sustainable Urban Development, you will automatically have the right to continue studies in the Master’s Programme in Transformative Urban and Regional Governance.