2025 Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 70 bachelor's degrees in urban studies/affairs during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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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 schools for urban studies/affairs students working on their bachelor's degree.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Urban Studies/Affairs in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in urban studies/affairs.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Urban Affairs

1

Rhodes College
Memphis, TN

12 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in urban studies/affairs has to check out Rhodes College. Rhodes College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Memphis.More information about a bachelor’s in urban studies/affairs from Rhodes College

2

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

23 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in urban studies/affairs needs to check out Virginia Commonwealth University. Located in the midsize city of Richmond, VCU is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in urban studies/affairs from Virginia Commonwealth University

Best Urban Studies/Affairs Colleges by State

Explore the best urban studies/affairs schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Tennessee	460	21
Georgia	453	2
Virginia	421	40
South Carolina	370	10
Kentucky	331	0
Louisiana	306	13
Mississippi	275	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Urban Affairs

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Andrew Bossi. More about our data sources and methodologies.