Overview of the curriculum

A master programm in 2 countries!

The courses of the Sustainable Urban Development degree programme take place alternately at TU Darmstadt and the Vietnamese-German University:

Study plan

Technische Universität Darmstadt Vietnamese-German University
1st Semester – online (each course 6 CP)
– German Law of Property and Planning
– Methodology of Empirical Analysis
– GIS and Applications to Urban Development
– English Scientific Writing
– Urban Development and Architecture of Cities 		1st Semester – online (each course 6 CP)
– Vietnamese Law of Property and Planning
– Methodology of Empirical Analysis
– Basics of GIS
– English Scientific Writing
– Urban Development and Arc
2nd Semester (each course 6 CP)
- Water in Urban Development
– Sustainable Waste Management and Life Cycle Assessment Application
– Infrastructure Planning
– Green Building Design
– Urban Construction Technologies
3rd Semester (each course 6 CP)
- Ecological Management in Urban Development
– Urban-Rural Partnership
– Instruments of Spatial Planning
– Urban Transport Planning
– Development Planning and Governance
– Multidisciplinary Project
4th Semester
- Master Thesis (24 CP) at either TU Da (Germany) or VGU (Vietnam) > you choose!

Please note:

The first semester takes place at the TU Darmstadt for some of the students and at the VGU for others. For students at the TU Darmstadt, the first semester will be online.

In the second semester all students will study together at TU Darmstadt.

The third semester will take place at VGU for all students together.

For the fourth semester, students can decide whether they want to write their Master's thesis in Germany or in Vietnam.