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. In 2021, 12 urban studies majors received their bachelor's degree from SDSU.

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 following rankings from College Factual show how the urban studies progam at SDSU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Urban Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	14

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

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 urban studies majors earned their bachelor's degree from SDSU. Of these graduates, 67% were men and 33% were women. The typical urban studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at SDSU since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% 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.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Other Social Sciences
• Criminology
• Geography & Cartography
• Anthropology
• General Social Sciences

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.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.