2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Urban Studies is the 209th most popular major in the country with 1,507 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, urban studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $39,193 and had an average of $21,495 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 488 urban studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,608 and $24,725 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 urban studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in urban studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in urban studies.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree urban studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Urban Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Stella and Charles Guttman Community College
New York, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stella and Charles Guttman Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Stella and Charles Guttman Community College is a public institution located in New York, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Urban Studies at Guttman

2

Monroe Community College
Rochester, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Monroe Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Monroe Community College is a medium-sized school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 1 associates’s urban studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Urban Studies at Monroe Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Urban Studies

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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