Colleges with good Urban Planning/Studies/Design Majors?

Lehoe
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 20:08:11 +0000

I’ve wanted to be an urban planner since about third grade, and, although I know many people change their minds once in college in regards to what they want to major in, I am serious about the discipline and have had two urban planning-related internships. It seems that, as an undergraduate major, urban planning is incredibly rare, but urban studies (and related majors like urban design, landscape architecture, urban ecology, etc) aren’t unheard of. I’m a senior in high school, and am only applying to schools (at least at the moment) with good programs in the discipline. My current list (I probably won’t be applying to all of these, I have to do one more round of deselection) includes:
University of Maryland College Park
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Utah
University of California Berkeley
New York University
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Southern California
University of Pittsburgh
University of Chicago
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania
Washington University in Saint Louis
Columbia University
I’ve got a good academic record (1530 SAT, French, Spanish + Listening, Math 2, Physics subject tests, 4.52 GPA, 12 AP classes and exams by the end of this year, numerous clubs and independent interests into which I’ve invested time), and am wondering if I’m looking over any schools with really interesting or good urban studies/planning/design programs. Thank you all in advance for your responses!