The School of Human Settlements strives for the development and transfer of knowledge about building sustainable, livable, and inclusive cities and communities. It has two full-time post-graduate programs under its banner, MBA- Urban Management and Governance Program (MBA-UMG) and Masters in Urban and Regional Planning Program (MURP) and a doctoral program. The courses are designed to develop planning and management expertise for public systems by creating the professionals needed for sustainable urban and regional development in rapidly transforming geographics.
Urban Management and Governance (MBA-UMG) is designed for incorporating the much-needed multidisciplinary skill sets into the urban domain aimed mainly at planners, architects, engineers, geographers, economists, and other, to develop all functional management competencies, with an understanding of the urban structure, society, and economy, and the system of urban governance, planning, and development. A unique component of UMG designed to provide hands-on learning is the Urban Learning Experience (ULE Practicum). This helps students to be associated with urban local bodies, to understand the city, and get on-site learning of organized interventions and city-management practices. The Master's Program in Urban and Regional Planning is aimed at creating individuals equipped to tackle the ever-changing Constitutional provisions for local governance and assist in the new modes of urban development and in turn meet the ever-growing demand of planners in the country. The course frameworks encourage participatory and developmental approaches, integrated considerations of equity and ecological sustainability, end-to-end solutions, and citizen-centric and inclusive sustainable approaches for the future—the Doctoral Program aimed at scholars researching a variety of issues in the infrastructure domain.
The pedagogy of courses offered by this school is to incorporate the multidisciplinary skillset into the field by the collaboration with other schools of the university. There are frequent interaction opportunities for students with professionals of the field in the form of conclaves or leadership talks, thus nurturing budding professionals with the most relevant knowledge and expertise required in the current professional scenario of the urban domain.