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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Studies/Affairs in the New England Region

4 Ranked Colleges
79 Degrees Awarded
$26,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Urban Studies/Affairs is the 341st most popular major in the country with 1,475 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the New England region, there were 121 urban studies/affairs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 79 urban studies/affairs graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in urban studies/affairs. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent urban studies/affairs programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the urban studies/affairs program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Studies/Affairs in the New England Region

#1

Worcester State University

Worcester, Massachusetts
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Worcester State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this medium-sized public school awarded 14 degrees to qualified bachelors’s urban affairs students in 2019-2020.

Worcester State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Worcester State University is $19,492 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Affairs students.

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#2

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. University of Connecticut is a public institution located in Storrs, Connecticut. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UCONN not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UCONN is $22,012 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Urban Affairs students.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#3

Trinity College

Hartford, Connecticut
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Hartford, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s urban affairs degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Trinity Bantams, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $34,460 for new england region bachelor’s degree urban affairs students per year to attend Trinity Bantams.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#4

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Urban Affairs Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s urban affairs degrees in 2019-2020.

Brown also made our “Best Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $29,392 for new england region bachelor’s degree urban affairs students per year to attend Brown University.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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%.

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Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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