Urban Studies/Affairs at University of California - Irvine

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

UC Irvine is located in Irvine, California and approximately 36,303 students attend the school each year.

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.

UC Irvine Urban Studies/Affairs Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Affairs

UC Irvine Urban Studies/Affairs Rankings

The urban affairs major at UC Irvine 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 UC Irvine

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

UC Irvine Urban Studies/Affairs Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 51% of urban affairs bachelor's degrees went to men and 49% 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 UC Irvine since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% more racial-ethnic minorities in its urban affairs 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 affairs.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	14
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	31
White	9
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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 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

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