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Urban Studies at San Diego State University

Urban Studies at San Diego State University

If you plan to study urban studies, take a look at what San Diego State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SDSU is located in San Diego, California and approximately 36,334 students attend the school each year.

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.

SDSU Urban Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Studies

SDSU Urban Studies Rankings

The urban studies major at SDSU 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.

Urban Studies Student Demographics at SDSU

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

SDSU Urban Studies Bachelor’s Program

44% Women
56% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 56% of urban studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 44% went to women. The typical urban studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% men. So male students are more repesented at SDSU since its program graduates 15% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 San Diego State University with a bachelor's in urban studies.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 8
White 6
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

Concentrations Within Urban Studies

If you plan to be a urban studies major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at San Diego State University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Urban Studies/Affairs 12

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 San Diego State University.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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