As well as compulsory planning papers, students take further papers from their second specialisation. In the fourth year, papers in advanced Professional Practice are taken, together with applied papers in Development Planning and Natural Resource Planning. A paper in either environmental or professional ethics must be taken in the third or fourth year. It is important to the planning profession, to other graduates and to the community that high standards are attained by planners. Where the BRP degree will take you Graduates work in a variety of fields, for local, regional or central government, in environmental and resource planning, city and district planning.
Graduates also work in the private sector.
They may be involved in planning commercial or industrial developments, locating new facilities, or seeking resource consents for projects. They work in fields like tourism, transport and forestry, or in resource development, manufacturing or retail planning. From private practice, planning consultants work on public and private sector projects, in New Zealand and abroad.