After your bachelor

After your graduation you can decide whether to find a job or carry on studying - at master's level.

Get a job

After you graduate, the job guarantee is great, and you can start working in consultancy firms, government institutions, transport companies or urban development agencies, for example, in a position as an area developer, traffic manager or urban designer. Or you will work on broader projects in the field of spatial planning and mobility within the entire urban development field. 

Accessibility, livability, safety, sustainability and social equality are important themes within Built Environment. The work you can do is very diverse, but often has to do with the (re)design of a street, neighbourhood, region or even country. It also involves devising mobility concepts and systems to move people and goods safely and comfortably. 
 

Examples

You can work for municipalities, water boards, provinces, project developers, research institutions, consultancy  and design firms in positions such as traffic manager, mobility manager, urban manager, strategic planner, area developer or urban designer. Below are some of the tasks associated with these positions.  

Traffic manager at a municipality  

• Manage and optimise traffic flows within the municipality. 
• Coordinate traffic regulations and measures during events and road works. 
• Analyse traffic data and incidents to improve traffic safety. 
• Cooperate with police and other traffic enforcement agencies. 

Urban Manager at water boards  

• Integrate water management into urban planning. 
• Coordinate urban water projects. 
• Collaborate with municipalities and other stakeholders. 

Urban designer for the province 

• Designing provincial urban development plans. 
• Integrating regional infrastructure and nature conservation areas. 
• Collaborating with provincial and local stakeholders. 

Strategic Planner at project developers 

• Develop strategic plans for project sites. 
• Give advice on the spatial impact of projects. 
• Coordinate spatial analyses and planning. 

Mobility manager at a research institute 

• Investigate mobility behaviours and needs. 
• Develop sustainable mobility strategies. 
• Publish research results and advise policymakers. 

Obtain a Master's Degree

If you choose to continue your studies, there are plenty of possibilities. Breda University of Applied Sciences has made a collaborative arrangement with two education institutes, allowing better preparation for and completion of your further studies.

FH Joanneum, Austria

You can move on to further study at a professional master’s programme in Energy & Transport Management at FH Joanneum in Kapfenberg (Austria, near Graz). Since there is an overlap between this master’s programme and the specialisation area Mobility, this two-year master’s track can be reduced to 14 months. 

Particulars
No tuition fees involved. To encourage foreign students to come and study in Austria, they do not need to pay any tuition fees. Accommodation is in an on-campus student flat in Kapfenberg (rental rate of approx. €230 per month).

Utrecht University

You can transfer to the academic master’s programme in Spatial Planning or Human Geography at Utrecht University. The transition between the specialisation areas Mobility and Spatial Planning and these master’s programmes has been optimised. The pre-master’s programme can be combined with the last year at Breda University of Applied Sciences, after which students can gain direct access to Utrecht University to complete a master’s programme in one year’s time.

More possibilities for transfer programmes

Upon completion of the programme in Built Environment students can transfer to various master’s programmes in the field. To be able to transfer to an academic master’s programme, you will first have to attend a pre-master’s programme. The pre-master’s programme will be offered at the relevant universities. Upon completion of such a track, you can obtain a Master of Science (MSc) degree at various universities in one year’s time.

The Netherlands

Students can transfer to the following master’s programmes in the field of Mobility and Urban Management:

• Utrecht University: Human Geography and Spatial Planning. Specialisations: Urban Geography, Regional Geography, Spatial Planning, Economic Geography, Public Administration
• Radboud University (Nijmegen): Human Geography. Specialisations: Urban Geography, Economic Geography and a free variant, Public Administration
• University of Amsterdam (UVA): Human and Social Geography, Urban and Regional Planning. Specialisations: Spatial Planning, Urban and Regional Planning and Mobility
• University of Groningen: Spatial Sciences. Specialisation: Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Environmental and Infrastructure Planning
• Nyenrode Business Universiteit: Management programme

Follow-up studies in a technical field, such as traffic engineering and traffic management are:

• Delft University of Technology: Civil Engineering. Specialisations: Traffic Engineering, master’s programme in Transport Infrastructure and Logistics
• Twente University of Technology: Civil Engineering. Specialisation: Traffic Engineering

Follow-up studies in the field of Urban Design can be attended at:

• Delft University of Technology
• Eindhoven University of Technology
• Academies of Architecture (hbo)
• Wageningen University

Studying abroad

Possible follow-up studies in the field of Built Environment in Europe are:

• Fachhochschule Joanneum, Graz (Austria): Energy & Transport Management
• Cranfield University (England): Air Transport Management
• University of Hasselt (Belgium): Traffic Engineering
• KU Leuven (Belgium): Urban Development, Traffic Engineering
• University of Copenhagen (Denmark): Traffic Engineering and Urban Development
• Lund University (Sweden): Sustainable Urban Design

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