Delivering an integrated and sustainable built environment
Loughborough UniversityLoughborough, United Kingdom
Course overview
Transform lives in the future built environment creating better architecture and transportation systems. More than 1.5 million people move to urban environments every week globally, and cities on our urban areas under a constant development meaning that the design and planning for those environments are critical for our global societies. Your research could provide the solutions complex multidimensional problems that face the design and delivery of the built-in environment from the architecture of spaces to the resilience and efficiency of the transport system systems that connect them.
The move to digitising architecture and construction as well as manufacturing requires implicit knowledge of design and how it intersects with digital information technologies. Digital control of autonomous vehicles is a key part of delivering integrate across mobility and buildings. Your research could be exploring the problems around collision through free path planning and driverless vehicles, or even understanding how data fusion and AI can be enables to create safer environments for humans and vehicles to coexist.
Join our team who combine the power of the UK’s leading School of architecture, with the multi-disciplinary teams across urbanisum and sustainable transport and help deliver our future cities to enable them to support growth and wealth as well as the health and well-being of city occupants. 94% of Loughborough’s research impact is rated world-leading or internationally excellent. REF 2021
Key highlights
- Research spans architecture, urbanism and sustainable transport systems
- Explore digitisation of architecture, construction and manufacturing
- Investigate collision-free path planning for driverless vehicles
- Apply data fusion and AI to safer human-vehicle environments
- Join multidisciplinary teams alongside a leading School of architecture
- 94% of research impact rated world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021)
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:1 — or above
Scholarships
Alumni Bursary
10% of tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
Up to 10% of feesAlumni Discount
UK students: £1,500 tuition fee discount for one academic year. International students: £3,000 tuition fee discount for one academic year.
Care Leaver's Scholarship
Excellence Scholarships
UK students: £3,000 off tuition fees; International students: £6,000 off tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
International Sports Student Postgraduate Bursary
Our International Sports Student Postgraduate Bursary offers a £12,000 tuition fee discount (set against the tuition fees of your chosen postgraduate taught programme ONLY).
Up to £12,000London 10th Anniversary Award
£5,000 off tuition fees.
Up to £5,000Loughborough Business School Scholarship
£1,500 (UK students) and £3,000 (international students) off tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
MBA Progress with Purpose Scholarship
50% of tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
Up to 50% of feesQatari Ghanim Al-Muftah Excellence Scholarship
Careers this course leads to
- Academic researcher
- University lecturer
- Urban planning consultant
- Transport systems engineer
- Autonomous vehicle research engineer
- Digital construction specialist
Cost of study
UK/Home: £5,238 | International: £29,500
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Loughborough University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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