Urban Studies at University of California - Irvine

What traits are you looking for in a urban studies school? To help you decide if University of California - Irvine is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's urban studies program.

UC Irvine is located in Irvine, California and approximately 36,303 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 65 students received a bachelor's degree in urban studies from UC Irvine.

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.

UC Irvine Urban Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Studies

UC Irvine Urban Studies Rankings

The urban studies major at UC Irvine 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.

Earnings of UC Irvine Urban Studies Graduates

The median salary of urban studies students who receive their bachelor's degree at UC Irvine is $29,073. 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 UC Irvine

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

UC Irvine Urban Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 65 students earned a bachelor's degree in urban studies from UC Irvine. About 49% of these graduates were women and the other 51% were men. The typical urban studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at UC Irvine since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% 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 University of California - Irvine with a bachelor's in urban studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	16
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	34
White	5
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• Demography & Population Studies
• General Social Sciences
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Political Science & Government

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 University of California - Irvine.

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 TFNorman under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.