Transport Planning and Engineering MSc (Eng)

Course overview

If you’re an ambitious engineering graduate – from a civil, mechanical, computing or electronic engineering background – this course is a smart route to a career in the expanding field of transport consultancy and public policy.

Our Transport Planning and Engineering MSc will teach you engineering techniques to develop transport networks that are founded on fundamental principles, robust evidence, sustainable and equitable principles, state-of-the-art modelling, accurate data analysis, and an understanding of human psychology.

Taught by researchers with an international reputation, this Masters degree has been designed following close consultation with industry to help prepare you for a rewarding career. It also addresses the multi-disciplinary nature of transport – enabling you to make effective decisions for clients, employers and society.

Studying in the Institute of Transport Studies at Leeds will also give you a unique head start in your career in transport. Not only does our world-leading research shape the course, but our close links with large corporations means you’ll have chance to interact with potential employers and possibly interview for graduate schemes and other vacancies. We also offer opportunities to build your industry work experience before you graduate with work placements and project work throughout your course.

Career opportunities

A degree from the Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds opens up a range of opportunities to pursue a rewarding career in this industry. This course will equip you with an extensive specialist skill set, alongside industry experience and the chance to interact directly with industry organisations which could give you the edge with employers.

Transport consultancies are the largest employers of our graduates, but other common careers include those in government, academia, regulatory bodies, transport operators, logistics companies, not-for-profit and international agencies.

Our graduates work across the private and public sectors. Many work abroad, whether for UK companies with overseas offices, for international organisations or for national governments.

Plus, the University of Leeds is in the top 5 most targeted universities in the UK by graduate recruiters, according to High Fliers’ The Graduate Market in 2024 report.

Here’s an insight into some of the job roles and organisations previous graduates on this course or similar have secured:

• Transport Planner, Jacobs Foundation
• Transport Officer, Ministry of Works and Transport, Uganda
• Civil Engineer, Ministry of Roads and Highways
• Senior Transport Modeller, Shanghai Urban Transport Design Institute
• Transport Engineer/Planner, FAO Consulting International (Nigeria) Ltd
• Transport Planning Consultant, Steer Davies Gleave
• Traffic & Transport Engineer, Duffy Chartered Engineers
• Transportation Planner Engineer, Pell Frischmann
• Transportation Consultant - Traffic Engineer, AECOM
• Transport Modeller, Jacobs Foundation
• Graduate Transport Engineer, AECOM
• Graduate Transport Modeller, WSP
• Graduate Transport Planner, Atkins
• Logistics Manager, Toyota