2025 Best Urban Education & Leadership Schools in the Great Lakes Region

If you plan on majoring in urban education & leadership, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #498 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of urban education & leadership. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 99 degrees in urban education & leadership annually.

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• Best Overall Urban Education & Leadership Schools List

Urban Education & Leadership Rankings by Degree Level

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Urban Education & Leadership Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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Best Schools for Urban Education & Leadership in the Great Lakes Region

The schools below may not offer all types of urban education and leadership degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Urban Education and Leadership

1

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Illinois at Chicago is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in urban education & leadership. UIC is a very large public university located in the city of Chicago.More information about a degree in urban education & leadership from University of Illinois at Chicago

2

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

52 Urban Education and Leadership Degrees Awarded

Any student pursuing a degree in urban education & leadership has to take a look at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Located in the large city of Milwaukee, UWM is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a degree in urban education & leadership from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Best Urban Education & Leadership Colleges by State

Explore the best urban education & leadership schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	915	2
Illinois	870	27
Indiana	737	5
Wisconsin	672	59

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Urban Education & Leadership Related Rankings by Major

One of 13 majors within the Educational Administration area of study, Urban Education & Leadership has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Educational Leadership & Administration	4,702
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration	820
Educational, Instructional, & Curriculum Supervision	412
Other Educational Administration & Supervision	222
Elementary & Middle School Administration/Principalship	136
Superintendency & Educational System Administration	131
Secondary School Administration/Principalship	86
Adult & Continuing Education Administration	69
Community College Education	47
Administration of Special Education	30

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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More about our data sources and methodologies.