2025 Best Urban Studies/Affairs Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
191Urban Affairs Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in urban studies/affairs, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #346 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for urban studies/affairs students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 191 degrees in urban studies/affairs annually.
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Your choice of urban studies/affairs school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Urban Studies/Affairs School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Studies/Affairs Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Urban Studies/Affairs in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the urban affairs degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat Virginia Tech if you want to pursue a degree in urban studies/affairs. Virginia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Blacksburg. A Best Colleges rank of #58 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Virginia Tech is a great school overall.
There were about 11 urban studies/affairs students who graduated with this degree at Virginia Tech in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in urban studies/affairs needs to check out Rhodes College. Located in the large city of Memphis, Rhodes College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 9th out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were about 14 urban studies/affairs students who graduated with this degree at Rhodes College in the most recent data year.
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Virginia Commonwealth University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in urban studies/affairs. VCU is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Richmond. A Best Colleges rank of #189 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means VCU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 46 urban studies/affairs students who graduated with this degree at VCU in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in urban studies/affairs needs to look into Georgia State University. Georgia State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Atlanta. This university ranks 17th out of 68 schools for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were approximately 42 urban studies/affairs students who graduated with this degree at Georgia State in the most recent data year.
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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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Your choice of urban studies/affairs school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Urban Studies/Affairs School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
