Ethiopia is experiencing high rate of urbanization which leads to creation of new urban centers and also expansion of the existing urban areas. The increase in the urban population puts pressure on the existing urban infrastructure and services and further calls for more infrastructure and service expansion and investment to meet the growing demand. As, many government reports and other research studies indicates that, urban centers of Ethiopia severely lacks the required infrastructure and services at appropriate level and standard in term of both quantity and quality. Management of the existing infrastructure and service is also very important. As various factors are responsible for the present urban infrastructure and service management crises, among critical ones is poor institutional capacity (lack of skilled and trained manpower). This calls upon the training and skill development of the human resource in field of urban infrastructure sector.

The objective of the masters programme is to produce competent, responsive and qualified civil servants, who will be specialists in Urban Infrastructure planning and Management to support the mandates/efforts/work of the regional and municipal governments, based on national development policy, strategies and programs, in undertaking prudently urban infrastructure planning and management programme.

The master’s program is of two years, structured in four semesters (each year two semesters) with total ECTS of 118 ECTS for those participants in the program with thesis. Program provides ranges of modules, includes; Research Methods and Techniques (RMT), urbanization and urban development as clustered modules and GIS for infrastructure, Urban Infrastructure Planning, Urban Infrastructure Financing & Asset Management, Municipal Infrastructure Service Management, Urban Project Management and Urban Transport Infrastructure Management as core modules of the program. The second year of the program will focus on the research and related activities.