An urban planner is someone who is capable of understanding the systemic reality of the city and its territory, visualizing it and communicating its characteristics through state-of-the-art tools to influence decision making focused on solving and guiding urban issues. As a Bachelor in Urbanism, you will acquire knowledge to comprehend the complex, multidimensional nature of urban problems in the diverse scales and circumstances in which they occur.
Career field
Thanks to the integral preparation you will receive in this B.A in Urbanism, on graduating you will be able to you participate in diverse business areas, such as:
Property development
Urban, financial and social project management
Government institutions
Urban consulting
Research
Mobility and transport
Regeneration of cities and historical sites
Geostatistical analysis
Is this right for you?
If you are interested in creating optimal spaces for human development, the B.A in Urbanism is the right fit for you.
The B.A. in Urbanism program aims to train professionals who analyze and understand the systemic reality of the city and its territory, who visualize and are able to communicate its social, demographic, physical, environmental, legal, administrative, technological, financial and design characteristics. Through cutting-edge tools, both methodological and technological, they positively influence decision-making focused on solving and guiding urban problems at all their scales.
Its graduates will work with the public, private, social and academic sectors to solve the most pressing urban challenges, both locally and globally; in addition to being capable of translating knowledge into innovative ideas and these into strategic and practical solutions that directly affect the territory at different scales: neighborhood, city, region, state and country.
Competencies
A Bachelor in Urbanism will graduate from Tec de Monterrey with the following competencies:
Propose solutions to habitat functioning issues, applying state-of-the-art methods and technologies.
Generate innovative solutions for regenerating the urban, rural and natural habitat that will elevate quality of life.
Forecast functional territorial scenarios, based on the systemic analysis of future territorial challenges.
Manage habitat projects, using territorial analysis tools and public policies with transdisciplinary teams.
Entry profile
Tecnológico de Monterrey is looking for a new generation of students that have finished their high school studies and are talented, enthusiastic individuals, who are committed to the development of their environment and the wellbeing of society; people who have the potential to study an undergraduate program and become leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit, humanistic sense and competitive on an international stage.
Entry requirements: High school or equivalent.
The three stages of the model
Choose your path
Exploration
You will open your competency file and add to it throughout your degree program.
You will learn the foundations of the area of Built Environment.
You will participate in fundamental and exploration challenges from the area of Built Environment, interacting with peers from different degree programs.
You will study general education courses, selecting them from a collection.
You will participate in a challenge that integrates all the competencies to be developed in this phase.
Focus
You will acquire the core competencies of your degree, in other words, those that distinguish it.
You will participate in more focused challenges to reinforce what you have learned and broaden your basic knowledge.
You will have the elements to decide whether to deepen your knowledge or diversify and, subsequently, build your specialization plan.
The Tec Weeks, challenges and overall university experiences will enrich your file.
Specialization
You have decided between diversifying or focusing deeply in your major, which you will achieve by choosing a concentration or a stay, to name a few of your options. The TEC Semester is a flexible time to start.
You will develop the competencies related to your specialization, increasingly connected to your passions, interests and plans.
By passing a concentration, you will develop your competencies, and, on graduating, will be a candidate for obtaining a Diploma in that concentration, after meeting the established requirements.
How can you specialize?
Concentrations
Specialize in one of the different concentrations available at the campus of your choice, according to the profile you would like to develop.
Internships
Internships allow you to participate in the development of specific projects with companies, organizations, or research groups, in a context of total immersion related to a specialty field. They can be carried out locally, nationally or internationally.
International experiences
Experience life outside Mexico to broaden your horizons and delve into the topics of your interest.
Courses or blocks
Choose the education units that best adapt to your objectives, enabling you to specialize in your specific interests.
Concentrations
Disciplinary
Delve into your field of study
Arts and Tech Incubator
City Development
Digital Journalism
Efficiency and Digitalization in Construction
Entrepreneurship in the Creative and Cultural Industries
Open Innovation and Technology Transfer
Real State Intelligence
Regenerative Design
Technology-Based Design and Futures
Transversal
Delve into other fields of study
Conscious Business
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Tools
Design, Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Families, Sustainability and Transcendence
Entrepreneurship in Action
Financial Vision for Decision-Making
Government and Public Transformation
Mexican Culture
Quality of Life and Well-Being
Social Innovation
Jewelry Design, Manufacturing and Marketing
*These concentraciones are not the definitive offer and their availability varies by campus.
B.A. in Urbanism Syllabus
General education course
Area exploration courses
Introductory block (CHALLENGE)
Area exploration block (CHALLENGE)
Exploration topic (CHALLENGE)
Disciplinary course
Disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
Integrating disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
TEC Semester
Multidisciplinary professional elective (CHALLENGE)
