Favorite University that offers an undergrad degree in urban planning
California Polytechnic State - San Lois Obispo
East Carolina University
Eastern Washington University
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Iowa State University
Michigan State University
The Ohio State University
University of Cincinnati
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
University of Missouri – Kansas City
West Chester University
University of Virginia
See ResultsCal Poly - Pomona, Western Washington University, Ball State, and Alabama A & M also offer urban planning undergraduate degrees
Urban studies is not urban planning, Urban Studies can lead into Urban planning but it is not planning. It is an investigation into the problems that face cities and their causes and origins, it is not where you use planning and design to solve those problems which is at the crux of what urban planning is. Urban studies, well studies the problem, while planning tries to find solutions through the use of planning and design
For context, I graduated from the Cornell URS Program, and while the distinction you're making makes some sense, I'm not sure I think that it makes sense for my program in particular. It certainly was never explained to me the way you did above, though I'm not sure if that was a failure of communication by the department or of my ability to understand it. The explanation that I was offered prior to matriculation was that Cornell URS was a complex systems / planning program with a generalist / liberal arts bent.
Probably about 75% all of my program-track courses (beyond the freshman introductory semesters) were specifically related to planning as a practice. I still have my planning law books to show it.
Okay, I don’t really know much about Cornells program in particular, I was speaking more broadly about the difference between urban studies and urban planning, but I am sorry if I was rude. I am glad to hear that there are urban studies programs that focus more on the planning side of things
