<p>Hi. </p>
<p>I am an incoming freshman at uc berkeley who is struggling with tremendous worries with what majors to choose. </p>
<p>After days of brainstroming… my options are narrowed donw to three…
- city planning + statistics …simultaneous degree
- city planning + landscape architecture… double major
- civil/environmental engineering</p>
<p>Number 2 sounds the most interesting to me… but</p>
<p>just to give myself more options after graduation… I think statistics can be a great help…</p>
<p>how do you guys think about that combination?</p>
<p>I am not a city planner, but have done economics in transportation and have had some exposure to city planning stuff here and there, and I think stats would be a very good choice as a supplement to city planning. It may not help THAT much at the nitty gritty town planning level (where even the more numbers oriented work wont involve much formal mathematics) but it will at least show a quant orientation, and it is much more important if you go into state or federal or research oriented work. Note in general city planning tends to be more micro oriented and closer to arch, or more regional oriented and more econ/stat intensive.</p>