2024 Best Urban Studies/Affairs Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
50Urban Affairs Degrees Awarded
A degree in urban studies/affairs is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #346 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Urban Studies/Affairs Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 50 degrees in urban studies/affairs to qualified students.
Your choice of urban studies/affairs school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for urban studies/affairs schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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.
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 Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Urban Studies/Affairs in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of urban affairs degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in urban studies/affairs needs to look into The University of Texas at Austin. UT Austin is a very large public university located in the city of Austin. A Best Colleges rank of #36 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UT Austin is a great university overall.
There were approximately 30 urban studies/affairs students who graduated with this degree at UT Austin in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Trinity University if you wish to pursue a degree in urban studies/affairs. Trinity U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of San Antonio. This university ranks 16th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were approximately 13 urban studies/affairs students who graduated with this degree at Trinity U in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in urban studies/affairs has to take a look at University of Central Oklahoma. Located in the suburb of Edmond, UCO is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 32 schools for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were approximately 4 urban studies/affairs students who graduated with this degree at UCO in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for urban studies/affairs schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
