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School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering (ABCE)
Transport and Urban Planning
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Key skills developed during your degree
- Ability to research and analyse
- Communication skills, written and verbal
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Creativity and problem solving ability
- Financial and commercial awareness
- Interpersonal and team-working skills
- Languages (optional module)
- Numeracy and computer literacy
- Organisation, time-management and planning skills
- Project management (planning and managing projects effectively)
- Understanding of effective leadership skills and management
- Understanding of health and safety
- Knowledge of planning processes, law and policy
Career options
Career areas related to the Transport courses include:
- Air Charter Brokering
- Airport Management
- Airline Pilot
- Customer Service and Business Development
- Fleet Management
- Freight Forwarding, Import/Export Management
- Health & Safety and Security
- Logistics Analysis
- Logistics and Distribution Management
- Operations Management
- Passenger Transport Management
- Project Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Transport Planner
- Traffic Management
- Transport Consultancy
- Transport Planning
- Warehouse Management
Career areas related to Urban Planning courses include:
- Historic Buildings Inspector/Conservation Officer
- Housing Manager/Officer
- Local Government Officer
- Town Planner
- Transport Planner
- Urban Designer
Careers where your degree would be useful:
The Transport and Urban Planning course degrees develop many skills that are valued by employers in a variety of sectors, including travel and tourism, financial services, economic development, urban regeneration, environmental protection, consultancy and management and information technology.
- Remember 60% of graduate roles are open to all disciplines.
*You can also look at other course pages depending on other modules you have taken and/or are interested in*
Further study
Further study at Loughborough University:
The School of Civil and Building Engineering have a Postgraduate Taught Master's programme you can apply to:
The school also offers postgraduate research opportunities.
Further study elsewhere:
Postgraduate taught programmes:
PhD opportunities:
Professional development websites:
Where do graduates go?
What do Loughborough Transport graduates do?
Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:
Employers included:
Amazon, Arriva UK Bus, CargoLogicManagement, Caterpillar, Central England Cooperative, CH2M Hill, DHL Aviation, Elekta, Infrastructure Planning and Design Ltd, Manchester Airport, Masabi, PatSnap, Roll-Royce, Royal Air Force, Tracsis Plc.
Roles included:
Airport Planner, Area Manager, Business Development Analyst, Commercial Graduate, Graduate Management Trainee, Graduate Transport Planner, Ground Operations and Project Support, Material Planner, Network Planner, Pilot, Rail Operations Analyst, Technical Administrator.
Further Study included:
MSc Management, MSc International Management, PhD in Civil Engineering
Further information
For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website. You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond Loughborough and track the career journeys and Loughborough experiences of some of our alumni.
For Urban Planning Courses
Our Urban Planning courses are new, with the first students graduating in 2024.
Resources to research career areas
Websites:
- All About Careers Guide: transport and logistics careers
- Careers That Move
- Department for Transport
- GoSkills the Sector Skills Council for passenger transport in the UK: opportunities in Passenger transport and travel
- iCould: career videos
- NATS Careers
- Prospects: transport and logistics sector overview
- Prospects: types of jobs in transport
- TargetJobs: logistics, transport and supply chain
- Aviation Job Search News and Sector Information
- Prospects: What can I do with a degree in Urban Planning?
- Royal Town Planning Institute: Directory of Planning Consultants
- Transport and Logistics Industry Guide
- Urban Design Group
Resources to find work experience, placements and graduate jobs
Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop skills and practical first hand industry experience.
Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.
- See Target Connect on our website for vacancies and opportunities
Other useful links:
- Careers in logistics
- Gradcracker
- Jobs in transport
- Prospects: jobs search
- Target jobs
- The Year in Industry
- Careers That Move
- Engineering Jobs
- Aviation Job Search
- Urban Design Jobs
- Planning Jobs
- RTPI Planning Aid England Volunteering
- Local Government Jobs
- Building4Jobs
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Talentview Construction free to use recruitment platform for a range of opportunities in the Construction indust
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Talentview Aviation free to use recruitment platform for a range of opportunities in the Aviation industry
Professional bodies, sector and labour market information (LMI)
Professional bodies:
- Airlines UK
- British International Freight Association
- Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation
- Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport
- Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply
- Confederation of Passenger Transport
- Freight Transport Association
- Institute of Export
- Institute of Supply Chain Management
- Institute of Transport Administration
- The International Air Transport Association
- Transport Planning Society
- Royal Town Planning Institute
Sector and labour market information (LMI):
- Flight Global
- Jobs in Transport: jobs, news and company profiles, recruitment site for transport professionals, includes section for graduates
- Prospects: transport and logistics sector overview
- Warwick University: Labour Market trends in Logistics and Passenger Transport
- Department for Transport