Colleges with good City Planning Programs?

cville91
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:42:20 +0000

I’ll be attending the Urban Planning program at the University of Cincinnati in the fall, and I definitely recommend it. It’s a five year program, and is one of the most extensive undergraduate urban planning programs in the country. One of the biggest draws is the required co-op program they have, so by the time you graduate, you’ll have 6 quarters of full-paid work experience (which usually results in a few job offers right after school). Plus UC is an urban university which comes in handy with a major like city planning. There are only 14 accredited undergrad planning programs in the country, so unfortunately there aren’t too many options unless you choose to study something similar like Urban Studies or Geography. And FWIW, on UC’s website, they claim to be the “leading undergraduate program nationwide”, however there are no rankings to back up that claim.