Urban Studies at University of Connecticut

If you are interested in studying urban studies, you may want to check out the program at University of Connecticut. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UCONN is located in Storrs, Connecticut and has a total student population of 27,215. In 2021, 28 urban studies majors received their bachelor's degree from UCONN.

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.

UCONN Urban Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Studies

UCONN Urban Studies Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The urban studies major at UCONN 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 Urban Studies Schools	86

Earnings of UCONN Urban Studies Graduates

The median salary of urban studies students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCONN is $23,132. 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 UCONN

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

UCONN Urban Studies Bachelor’s Program

The urban studies program at UCONN awarded 28 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 46% of these degrees went to men with the other 54% going to women. The typical urban studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at UCONN since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% 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 Connecticut with a bachelor's in urban studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• General Social Sciences
• Geography & Cartography
• 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 CT, the home state for University of Connecticut.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Managers	6,590	$129,730
Urban and Regional Planners	400	$79,500

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.