• Graduate Diploma in Planning at the University of Waterloo is offered as a 1.3 year (4 terms) program.
  • It is an online, course-based program offered on a part-time basis only.
  • This is a post-graduate diploma program offered through the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo which uses an interdisciplinary approach to address a range of environmental and planning issues.
  • The programs focus on planning as a process, which includes policy-making, research, and decision-making.
  • This approach gives equal emphasis to how and why of planning, and integrates several disciplines in the social, pure, and applied sciences.
  • In online study mode, the content is highly interactive including regular communication with instructors and other students.
  • The students to faculty ratio for this program is 24:1.
  • Waterloo is pleased to provide the President's Graduate Scholarship (PGS) to outstanding graduate students who hold major federally and provincially funded competition-based scholarships.
  • It offers professionals with prior experience in planning the opportunity to expand their knowledge of planning and to keep up-to-date with recent developments.
  • Courses are taught by faculty members from the School who are actively engaged in planning practice and research in Canada and beyond.
  • As one of Canada's leading universities, the University of Waterloo gives students access to award-winning professors and exceptional learning resources.
  • The average salary after this degree is 34,032.