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Construction management major wanting to get into transportation planning/urban and regional planning grad school

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I am a sophomore construction management major with a heavy civil minor at a college of architecture and environmental design in California. Through my minor, I have been able to take fundamentals of transportation engineering, and in the future I am slotted to take upper division CE design courses of highway geometrics and design and railway engineering on top of two extra advanced, heavy civil construction classes. Additionally, I am currently taking a transportation theory class from the city regional planning department and next quarter I will take transportation policy and development.

I wanted to know if anyone could give me any pointers on if this is a good undergraduate + minor set up to get into urban planning graduate school? I’m trying to make my undergraduate in minor as directed as possible.

Additionally, I want to work in transportation planning at large Metropolitan planning. You wouldn’t tell me if advanced construction knowledge is useful for a planner to have? Especially in the southern California context.

Also, if anyone could recommend me some good urban planning graduate schools in California that would be pretty cool as well
 
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ran across a similar thread on reddit, so going to assume you are at CPSLO. That is a great grad program, especially their transportation planning program. Learning the ins and outs of construction and how that affects the urban environment is great set-up. Other schools in socal with a grad program include CPP, USC, san diego state, and northridge.
 
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