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

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Urban Studies/Affairs is the 346th most popular major in the country with 1,507 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 488 urban studies/affairs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 urban studies/affairs 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 Affairs Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in urban studies/affairs. That schools that top this list have a program in urban studies/affairs in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Urban Studies/Affairs 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 Affairs Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Guttman 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.

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2

Monroe Community College
Rochester, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Urban Affairs Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Monroe Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Rochester, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s urban affairs degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Urban Studies/Affairs at Monroe Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Urban Studies/Affairs

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.

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