Urban Studies at California State University - Northridge

If you are interested in studying urban studies, you may want to check out the program at California State University - Northridge. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CSUN is located in Northridge, California and approximately 40,381 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 27 students received a bachelor's degree in urban studies from CSUN.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Urban Studies section at the bottom of this page.

CSUN Urban Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Studies

CSUN Urban Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks urban studies programs across the country. The following shows how CSUN performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The urban studies major at CSUN is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Urban Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	48

How Much Do Urban Studies Graduates from CSUN Make?

The median salary of urban studies students who receive their bachelor's degree at CSUN is $33,144. This is less than $35,454, which is the national average of all urban studies majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Urban Studies Student Demographics at CSUN

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the urban studies majors at California State University - Northridge.

CSUN Urban Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 27 urban studies students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from CSUN, about 70% were men and 30% were women. The typical urban studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at CSUN since its program graduates 25% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its urban studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Northridge with a bachelor's in urban studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	6
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

CSUN also has a doctoral program available in urban studies. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Geography & Cartography
• Anthropology
• Economics
• Political Science & Government
• Sociology

Careers That Urban Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in urban studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California State University - Northridge.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Urban and Regional Planners	7,950	$93,790
Social Sciences Professors	2,760	$147,680
Sociologists	1,070	$98,560

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Cbl62 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.