- Degree
- Master of Science
- Course location
- München
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- Courses are held in English only. Participants should write the Master's thesis in English.
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Additional information on beginning, duration and mode of study
- We admit new students every year in the winter semester (October).
- Application deadline
- To be admitted, you must submit your application for admission between 1 January and 31 May of the respective year you intend to start your studies so that you can commence lectures in October of the same year.
Processing of admission takes time. Therefore, we encourage applicants to apply early within the application window above to receive their admission on time and have a reasonable time for processing visas.
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- Did you know that ninety percent of land holdings in developing countries are not documented, administered, or protected? Yet land administration systems and practices do not cater to the complexity of land issues, including urban sprawl, land tenure insecurity, and climate change.
Deriving solutions to these challenges requires a combination of contextual insights, technical-methodological instruments, and communication skills to accelerate land rights documentation, land tenure security, and sustainable land use. It requires responsible governance of land tenure and fit-for-purpose land information systems to document relationships between people and land in a politically, legally, and socio-culturally sensitive manner.
The Land Management and Geospatial Science programme combines two inter-connected scientific domains: Land Management and Geospatial Science. The aim of the Master’s programme is to train land professionals who can apply land and spatial-related concepts and tools to analyse international contemporary land issues and have the executive soft skills to carry out land administration functions to solve these land issues.
Required modules offered as part of the Master's programme:
• Land management
• Real estate economics
• Photogrammetry and remote sensing
• Geodesy for land management
• International professional practice in land management and geospatial science
• Property rights and land tenure systems
• Land administration and land information systems
• Geoinformatics for land management
• Decision support systems
Elective modules include (amongst others):
• Land management and land policy
• Spatial planning and policies
• Remote sensing in urban planning and development
• Land management international
• Instruments of land mobilisation
• International rural development
• Urban ecology
• Advanced real estate management
• Advanced GIS
• Introduction to earth system science
• Remote sensing – selected chapters
• Acquisition and analysis of photogrammetric data
• Spatial data management and visualisation
• Environment and climate transformation
• Energy transformation
• Urban Water-Energy-Food Nexus
• Big geospatial data analysis and management
• Scientific paper writing