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| Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ademasta(m): 8:09am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Help: My Younger Brother Has To Choose Between Geography And URP Please help, my brother needs to choose a career path between Geography and Urban&Regional Planning. What are the prospects in each, career challenges, professionalism etc. He needs this info to take a decision before 11am today. Thanks Mods@ please help do the needful, i need people's opinions. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by Teniolasmart: 8:18am On Dec 05, 2016 |
choose URP...it d best.....................i will give reasons later 7 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ademasta(m): 8:26am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Teniolasmart:Thanks sir, waiting patiently for the reasons. |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by orimsamsam(m): 8:44am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Urp is better. 2 Likes |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ademasta(m): 8:52am On Dec 05, 2016 |
orimsamsam:Thanks a lot. Please can you give me some reasons |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by greenermodels: 8:59am On Dec 05, 2016 |
ademasta:the clear winner is urban and regional planning because it's a professional course especially if he ever ventures abroad to study and work, geography in Nigerian schools is a complete waste of time and money.even secondary schools are retrenching geography teachers as they stop the teaching of the subject. 7 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by orimsamsam(m): 9:01am On Dec 05, 2016 |
ademasta:Urban planning, in university, is usually a combination of geography and architecture, along with some elements of economics, sociology and political science. They offer the same courses with architecture student In the first year and second semester of there second year in the university Geography is the study of place and the relationship between people and dere environment 13 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ademasta(m): 9:22am On Dec 05, 2016 |
greenermodels:Wow thanks a lot |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ademasta(m): 9:23am On Dec 05, 2016 |
orimsamsam:Wow! Thanks so much sir 1 Like |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by veekid(m): 11:25am On Dec 05, 2016 |
None of the above 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by Pavore9: 11:29am On Dec 05, 2016 |
URP is broader and offers more prospects. 4 Likes |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by djlaqua91(m): 11:30am On Dec 05, 2016 |
OP Both are very good, URP is more lucrative. But if he intends to go for Geography then he should better specialize in GIS, Geomorphology or Hydrology. Na there better Career prospects and money they. Danke 10 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by Osu175(m): 11:31am On Dec 05, 2016 |
The only way i ll choose geography above URP is if he ll be going to a flying school (pilot) after university, even with that URP can still do same. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by Adebayowest: 11:32am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Choose URP. I am currently studying this at University of western Sydney Australia. Will explain later. 5 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by massinola(m): 11:33am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Your choice of the one to choose between the two depends on your future carrier ambition. for the guy giving his reason on why you should choose URP to be because secondary schools are retrenching geography teacher is way out of the line. going by that his argument, people should stop studying chemical engineering, banking and finance, accounting because oil, banking sectors have been retrenching workers since last year. If you have any ambition of joining force, going into GIS, cartography, Meteorology, Environmental resource management, I strongly advice you to go for Geography. but if your ambition is to become a secondary school teacher, then go for URP as the earlier poster suggested because they are not retrenching them unlike the geography teachers. I studied Geography/Meteorology in Federal university of technology, minna. presently I'm running a master programme in environmental resource management in the same school. rounding off the programme almost. Google environmental resource management and URP and choose for yourself. as I said earlier, your choice should be determined by your future career ambition. No course is superior to the other as no course can take the place of the other. 25 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ademasta(m): 11:35am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Adebayowest:Thanks, but do you think it can be compared with that of Nigeria? |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by stefanweeks: 11:35am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Ask google Thank me 1 Like |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by dangote7510(m): 11:35am On Dec 05, 2016 |
thats what am studying now, though is very stressfull, but very good one. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ademasta(m): 11:36am On Dec 05, 2016 |
djlaqua91:Thanks a lot sir 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by frankmoney(m): 11:37am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Ok 1 Like |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ademasta(m): 11:37am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Osu175:Thought they say oil companies do consider geography |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by tripoli007(m): 11:39am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Who school EPP ? |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by djlaqua91(m): 11:42am On Dec 05, 2016 |
ademasta: You're welcome. from a GIS expert 1 Like |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by ItsawrapOutfit: 11:42am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Go for entrepreneurship  |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by JosephCudjoe(m): 11:42am On Dec 05, 2016 |
greenermodels: Nd dz is a complete disaster for Nigeria. Obviously all d post av seen so far was based out of ignorance. Now Geog and URP are two different things. Geog is wider dan urp. What is d future of d Nigeria environment and its resources if geog is scrapped out of d system. Most courses on environment if not all, climate change amg odas are built on the knowledge of geog or on d course geog. Now if she chooses geog(grads wit a good grade) and plans her career well..she has job opportunities from the United Nations, Oil companies, Teaching hospitals(medical geog), Research institutes wich includes universities, places lyk IITA,FRIN,NESREA, NOSDRA(if she does msc in GIS)..there r a lot wich i cant just list. And even tho i av seen geographers in d aviation industry, banks,airpots, Nimet, and dz country economy is flexible to any discipline.....all she needs its a good grade at least a 2:1. And she will have more opportunities dan URP. IN conclusion if neither course is her dream...she should go for Geography. Its far better dan URP if both are not r dream profession. 22 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by Osu175(m): 11:43am On Dec 05, 2016 |
ademasta:are you sure its geography or geology ? 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by djlaqua91(m): 11:44am On Dec 05, 2016 |
ademasta: GIS, hydrology folks. Or he could do a masters in Geology, env. science or other geo-sciences. Geography is broad, he could switch to the economics aspect, physical, computer/technical, Surveying (BIG MONEY), meteorology, population, human (INEC), SATELLITE Navigation, United nations related researches and grants etc. Even URP is in geography. So many opportunities as long as he's ready to add skills persoanlly because schools won't teach you more than 5% these days. I hope i've made some common sense 11 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by donigspain(m): 11:45am On Dec 05, 2016 |
ademasta:NONE!!! I studied Geography and Meteorology. I have friends who studied URP (same Environmental Science Faculty). None of us works in our field of study even with my best graduating student blah blah blah. There is no job in these fields here in Nigeria unless you want to be a Sec Sch teacher. Let him/her choose any of Architecture, Remote sensing, Surveying, GPS or GIS if he/she is hell bent on working in the environmental field!!! This is what I will advice my own child. 14 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by JosephCudjoe(m): 11:46am On Dec 05, 2016 |
URP limits you to just a sector of d economy.... 2 Likes |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by mysteriouspee: 11:47am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Both courses are good and related. With geography, your brother has over 8 fields of specialisations to select from. Remote Sensing, Geomorphology, Retail Geography, Medical Geography among others. He can even become a surveyor. Geography is broad and you are not restricted to the field. Geography is a 4 year course while URP is 5 years in Nigeria. Some schools even merge the 2 courses together and call it geography and regional planning 5 Likes |
| Re: Geography Vs Urban & Regional Planning: Which Should He Go For? by misterjosh(m): 11:49am On Dec 05, 2016 |
Geography, he would have a broad range of areas to choose from as he advances his academics 1 Like |
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