- Degree
- Master of Science in Regional Development Planning and Management
- Course location
- Dortmund
- In cooperation with
- • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana
• Ardhi University (ARU), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• University of the Philippines (UP), Manila, Philippines
• Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh), Valdivia, Chile
• Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- All courses are taught in English (100%). Participants have to write all assignments, reports and their Master's theses in English.
(At UACh [Chile], the language of instruction is Spanish.)
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Additional information on beginning, duration and mode of study
- The lecture period for the SPRING programme at TU Dortmund University starts in general at the beginning of October with the SPRING opening ceremony and a two-day orientation phase. Students are requested to arrive in Dortmund a week in advance to take care of administrative matters.
The start of the second year will be announced by each partner university well in advance.
All courses will be held in person.
- Application deadline
- • 1 October including the DAAD scholarship application for intake in the following year
• 1 May for intake in the same year for
• students with their own funds or confirmed scholarships
• German or European applicants
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- Varied
- Additional information on tuition fees
- • TU Dortmund: no tuition fees, but charges a service fee of 550 EUR
• Universidade Federal do ABC: no tuition fees
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology: 3,355 EUR
• Ardhi University: 3,150 USD
• University of the Philippines: 1,622 EUR
• Universidad Austral de Chile: no tuition fees, but charges a service fee of 2,500 EUR
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- Yes
- Description/content
- SPRING combines intensive training in development theories and strategies, planning concepts and methods, and implementation and monitoring tools with practice-oriented field studies aimed at elaborating regional development plans and programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The programme focuses on the specific cultural and socio-economic contexts in the developing world.
SPRING places its emphasis on development management at the level between macro-regional and community-based planning.
Development planning is seen as a problem-oriented management tool with the following objectives:
• to identify development problems, trends, resources, constraints and potentials
• to formulate development objectives, policies and strategies
• to design plans and programmes
• to assess environmental impacts of plans and programmes
• to organise target group participation and decision making processes
• to apply instruments for programme implementation and management
• to evaluate and monitor plans and programmes