Urban Studies/Affairs at Columbia University in the City of New York

If you plan to study urban studies/affairs, take a look at what Columbia University in the City of New York has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 30,135.

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

Columbia Urban Studies/Affairs Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Affairs

Columbia Urban Studies/Affairs Rankings

The urban affairs major at Columbia is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Urban Studies/Affairs. 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.

Urban Affairs Student Demographics at Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the urban affairs majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of urban affairs bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical urban affairs bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% men. So male students are more repesented at Columbia since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor's in urban affairs.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Careers That Urban Affairs Grads May Go Into

A degree in urban affairs can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Social Sciences Professors	2,570	$101,250
Urban and Regional Planners	1,410	$76,730
Sociologists	190	$75,800

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 Nandaro under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.