2025 Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
67Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in urban studies/affairs, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #236 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for urban studies/affairs students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 67 bachelor's degrees in urban studies/affairs during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Urban Studies/Affairs School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The urban affairs bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality urban affairs program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on urban studies/affairs students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other urban studies/affairs students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized urban studies/affairs related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for urban studies/affairs students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Featured Urban Studies/Affairs Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
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Brown University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in urban studies/affairs. Located in the medium-sized city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in urban studies/affairs from Brown University
One of 0 majors within the Urban Studies area of study, Urban Studies/Affairs has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).