The UK's top planning school
The department's main aim is to maintain and enhance its standing in the research community and in particular to maintain its international reputation for undertaking leading edge research in planning.
The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirm the department's status as a world-class centre for the study of town and regional planning. The detailed assessment of the quality of published outputs and research environment ranked the department second amongst all town and country planning departments and top amongst accredited planning schools in the UK with 65% of research graded in the top 4* (world leading) and 3* (internationally excellent) categories.
35% of the work we submitted was judged to be at the top grade of 4*, representing quality that is world leading. This is the highest proportion in the UK, bettered by no other university.
Our outstanding research achievements mean that you will be taught by academics who are recognised as being at the forefront of research in their field.
Our quality profile
| Quality level |
4* |
3* |
2* |
1* |
Unclassified |
| Percentage of research activity |
35 |
30 |
30 |
5 |
0 |
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The results are presented in the form of a quality profile, with proportions of work being judged to meet the following five quality levels:
4* - Quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour
3* - Quality that is internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour but which nonetheless falls short of the highest standards of excellence
2* - Quality that is recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour
1* - Quality that is recognised nationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour
Unclassified - Quality that falls below the standard of nationally recognised work. Or work which does not meet the published definition of research for the purposes of this assessment
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