2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Urban Studies is the 209th most popular major in the country with 1,453 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , urban studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $39,193 and had an average of $21,768 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 urban studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,431 and $15,731 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in urban studies. That schools that top this list have a program in urban studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree urban studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Urban Studies

1

Stella and Charles Guttman Community College
New York, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in New York, New York, this small public school awarded 6 degrees to qualified associates’s urban studies students in 2021-2022.

Read more about Urban Studies at Guttman

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Monroe Community College
Rochester, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Monroe Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Monroe Community College is a medium-sized school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 1 associates’s urban studies degrees in 2021-2022.

Read full report on Urban Studies at Monroe Community College

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Andrew Bossi.