This might be the case in most Canadian uni’s where planning is based into policy. But the planning course at SAPL is design based. They have full accreditation to

~ to Professional Standards Board (PSB), SAPL is formulated around form based planning with design studios, where as the UK universities have Urban Design that come under M.Arch. I don't really want to leave design for paper work.

so.... it's accredited by the Alberta institute of planners. Big woop. How is the degree reciprocity with other planning associations or is your goal to live in Alberta? Spoiler alert, it's cold with few urban areas and chances that you fall into a mostly design career vs public policy/zoning are slim.

Well not really it is accredited by the Professional Standards Board (PSB), and representing the accreditation requirements of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Alberta Professional Planners Institute, which means I can move to a warmer province?? I've heard about the winters you have there, I will keep that in mind. Thanks for the advice though.

warmer province?

I can say as an Albertian that the summers are the best! Warm and no humidity with a light breeze (80 km/h gusts yesterday meh), but our winter are long and very cold. I also live in Northern Alberta where we get 20 hours of daylight in the summer and 20 hours of darkness in the winter and a spectacular light shows (Aurora Borealis) every spring and fall. I moved here from Ontario over 15 years ago and I love it. Most work here is either government, for a developer, or oil/natural gas field related. Pick your poison carefully.

warmer province = BC = high cost of living

There is reciprocity for accredited architecture degrees... but urban design/planning programs are not listed by the CACB unless they are also an architecture school.

Thanks

@newbie.Phronesis Thank you for the reply
I have done a lot research on these topics and it’s all confusing as you move from one country to another.
I am an international applicant and in terms of Canada doing an M.Arch would be a 3 year course, as we have to do a foundation year to match the Canadian level and it’s 2 years in the UK.
I’ve looked at planning courses across Canada and the SAPL programme in Calgary is surely interesting, the rest being multidisciplinary.
Do you have any thoughts on U of Calgary?
Working aspect especially for an international student in UK is super weird and complicated, they would just send us back home after 2 years if u don’t get a visa sponsor.

@N.S. exactly, thought there might be something similar for Urban Planners but that's up to OP to research.

@Archimelon U. of Calgary seems fairly good, not the top Canadian school but not the worst. Last I looked they have a tech focus (Robotics, Parametric design offered) + offer semesters & trips abroad --> so you have flexible options there.

@newnewbie.Phronesis
Thanks for all the inputs I will keep UOC as an option and look at a few more that fits my needs. Although the word is quality of education is seemingly high all over Canada. True?
At the end of it I don’t want to fall in the debt category (No one does XD)
No matter what top university one studies in, you are on your own once ur out! Am I right?