School of Built Enviroment and Development Studies

The name of the School is in line with international best practice. It is to promote synergistic relationship between the built environment and development studies. Development Studies is an academic discipline which evolved in the second half of the twentieth century and includes human security, migration, poverty, population, rural and community development, housing, planning, women’s studies, wages, etc. The new School has the potential of becoming one of the largest postgraduate schools in the College.