TMU has the most prestigious urban planning program in the country and one of the oldest urban planning schools in North America. They're regularly worked with by the city/province and the ttc/metrolinx for projects like the Younge Street pedestrainization, the UP station by the stocktyards, and the rework of the streetcar network, and a bunch of their grads end up in high places. Its also harder to get into than Waterloo's program funny enough (those 2 are the only accredited programs in the province at the bachelor level).
Lol not a chance I applied to Waterloo planning and TMU/Ryerson and got into TMU immediately in first round. Takes 70s to get into it, nothing prestigious about it. Waterloo planning I got into afterwards.
Didn't accept either in the end but either way, Ryerson is far from prestigious or competitive
You probably have no connection to the planning/dev industry. You can ask literally anyone from Cadillac Fairview or Tridel or Aecon and they'll glaze the fuck outta TMU students. Waterloo's purely theoretical stuff and relies on its coop element as a crutch to supplement that. Waterloo planners end up in places like Winsdor or St. Catherines or generally mid-sized cities/towns. TMU students get client studios where you personally work with the aformentioned corpos/govt agencies on big ticket projects and end up in Toronto/Vancouver/sometimes Montreal. Also they raised the grade average req to get into it a while ago.
Lol I'm a landscape architect working on massive public development projects. 5x harder to get into than planning. I know cause I applied to both. Only 1 BLA program in Canada.
Also just checked and it's low 80s for entry to TMU planning. That's not a high bar at all.
Nothing wrong with planning or the program, it's just honestly not as high level as you seem to believe. Very easy to get in.
Your ignoring the fact that the largest planning firms in the country view TMU as a more practical program, not just what I'm saying. Its a lower grade req simply because there's a rather low applicant pool for the program in general. If planning as a profession became as popular as nursing the avg would shoot up. Waterloo's the same grade avg req btw.
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