Bachelor in Sustainable city management

The one who completes a degree in Sustainable City Management will be ready to respond to the challenges associated to a growing urbanised world. The locus of his/her professional action will therefore be the built environment that constitute the urban areas, and its diverse components, with a special emphasis on their management, operation, and optimization, from a sustainable perspective.
The course is structured in 6 semesters. In the first 4, students should attend 6 pre-defined Curricular Units (CU) in each semester. In the last 2 semesters, students can choose, in each semester, 5 out of 8 options for the CUs. This will add to 1 more predefined CU. In the last semester, the predefined CU is their Final Projet which includes the public presentation of their report/thesis

Minimum grades – Application grade: 95 points; Entrance exams: 95 points
Calculation formula – Average of secondary level of studies: 65%; Entrance exams: 35%
Entrance exams – One of the following examinations: 09 Geography or 10 Descriptive Geometry or 16 Math

The professional action of those graduated with this course can be carried in: firms who do rehabilitation (buildings or infrastructures); companies who operate or manage urban systems and facilities (water supply, sewage, waste, transportation, schools, etc); maintenance contractors; consultants; insurance companies, local administration, to name a few. And they can also work on design offices, or investigation and research.

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The graduated in Sustainable City Management will have a strong practical drive, grounded on solid theoretic background. His/her main focus will be on the operation, management, and improvement of urban systems and infrastructures, having in mind sustainability criteria. Among the learning objectives, one can mention:
– to acquire knowledge related to urban sustainability, as well to the existing risks in an urban environment
– to develop competencies associated with management, operation, and rehabilitation of urban systems and infrastructures
– to develop competences, associated to rehabilitation of the built environment (and the soil where it stands), including repair of structures and other constructive elements; improvement of comfort standards; reinforcement of foundations; introduction of new materials, etc
– to develop competences in project and operations management, communication, collaboration, and teamwork

Those with graduate in this course can apply to any Master course in which you need to have a bachelor degree, in particular those that cover topics related to urban systems and environments.