The aim of the Bachelor and Master courses is to train urban planners who are especially competent and able to apply formal and informal methods to supervising planning processes, as well as making them proficient in large-scale urban planning design. The twofold qualification is therefore the central part of training. Not only are strategic approach and planning expertise taught but particular emphasis is also placed on creativity, design competence and the ability to think in terms of structures and spaces.

This way the term "planning" receives new accents reaching from designing single objects and planning holistic development concepts to actively supervising and monitoring the respective planning processes. The aim is to acquire the ability to act and decide effectively and be able to meet the research and practical requirements of the transformation societies, irrespective of scale, whether domestic, municipal or regional.

The Bachelor is the first vocational qualification of the study course. It trains competences and abilities necessary to manage, under supervision, the standard tasks of research and practice. It can also lead to the Masters course. Upon finishing the Bachelor course the graduate can then work in the field, or re-orientate before continuing studies. Working as a self-reliant urban and regional planner and registration in the architectural association’s list of urban planners requires a Masters degree.