Newcastle University

Graduate Destinations

Each year, every university in the UK contacts all UK and EU graduates to find out what they are doing on a specific date, approximately six months after graduation. This is the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey.

The following analysis is based on the data supplied by 35 Town Planning BA graduates from Newcastle University who responded to our survey.

2011 Newcastle University Town Planning BA Graduates

97% went into work, study or a combination of both.

Explicit refusals are where leavers send back the questionnaire marking it as a refusal, write a letter stating not to include them, or verbally state on the telephone that they do not wish to be included in the survey.

Of those in employment, 89% were in graduate-level jobs.

£16,550 was the average salary of all of the graduates who supplied us with salary details. For town planners, this is a typical starting salary. Once town planners gain experience and progress to become principal planners, their salaries typically range between

Career Choices

This professionally accredited course is usually taken as a five-year sandwich course and normally entails a year placement in the fourth year, gaining practical experience and the Certificate of Planning Practice, before returning to a fifth year of study to take the Diploma in Town Planning. These courses are taken as part of the process of becoming a fully chartered town planner. Many of our Town Planning BA Honours graduates spend the year after graduating working in planning practices and local authority planning departments, usually as planning assistants. Occasionally graduates choose not to follow careers in the area of planning but instead use the excellent innovative and organisational abilities and communication skills gained on their course to enter other fields, for example, working in politics, or starting their own business.

Those who choose to continue studying, but don't take the Diploma in Town Planning, often specialise in other related subject areas, such as urban design.

Below are examples of our 2009-2011 graduates' employment and further study destinations.

Graduate Employment

Further Study