Which is better for getting urban internships: Florida State or Temple?

The biggest practical difference is that Temple places you in a large, transit-connected city with a wide range of municipal, nonprofit, neighborhood-development, and regional-planning employers, while Florida State gives you unusually direct access to Florida’s state-government policy world in Tallahassee. FSU students benefit from being close to the Florida Capitol, state agencies, the City of Tallahassee, and Leon County, which can be especially valuable for work involving statewide housing, transportation, environmental, or land-use policy.

Temple’s Philadelphia location is likely to create more sheer options in neighborhood-based urban work. Its urban setting also makes it easier to observe and participate in issues such as transit access, redevelopment, housing affordability, and community organizing as part of everyday campus life.

Florida State is particularly compelling if you are interested in how planning and community-development decisions are made at the state level. Tallahassee is smaller than Philadelphia, so the local urban internship pool is narrower, but the concentration of government offices can make semester-long policy internships more practical and relationship-driven.

For the specific goal of maximizing urban internships across city government and community development during the school year, Temple has the edge because Philadelphia offers a deeper and more varied urban employer base. Choose Florida State instead if your interest leans more toward Florida state policy, legislative work, and public-sector planning connections.