2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Urban Studies/Affairs

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Urban Studies/Affairs is the 346th most popular major in the country with 1,453 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

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

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Affairs Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in urban studies/affairs. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their urban studies/affairs program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Affairs Major

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Urban Studies/Affairs

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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 Affairs Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. New York, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s urban affairs degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.

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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 Affairs Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Monroe Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Monroe Community College is located in Rochester, New York and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 associates’s urban affairs degrees to qualified students.

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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

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