If you’re looking for some smaller schools that might suit, here are a few suggestions:
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Furman (SC): This school of about 2300 undergrads is in Greenville, which is an up-and-coming city, but is set apart in its own little space. Its location would make it relatively easy to access the lower Appalachians (though nowhere near as easily as at App State or JMU). It offers a business major but also offers majors in urban studies and sustainability science. It also offers a dual degree in engineering, so some of that coursework that might have been taken in construction engineering could potentially be taken here, too.
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Hobart William Smith (NY): This school of about 1600 undergrads is along the Finger Lakes and all the outdoors opportunties in the surrounding areas. Some of the areas of study that might interest him include majors in architectural studies, environmental studies (with an urban studies track), geoscience, management and entrepreneurship, and there’s a minor in urban studies.
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Rhodes (TN): About 2k undergrads at this Memphis school. Offers majors in business, environmental science and environmental studies, and urban studies.
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College of Wooster (OH): About 2k undergrads here. Offers majors in business economics, earth sciences, environmental geoscience, environmental studies, geology, and urban studies.