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Urban Studies at Vassar College

Urban Studies at Vassar College

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

Vassar is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and has a total student population of 2,435.

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.

Vassar Urban Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Studies

Vassar Urban Studies Rankings

The urban studies major at Vassar 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 Vassar

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

Vassar Urban Studies Bachelor’s Program

58% Women
17% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 42% of urban studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 58% 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 Vassar since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

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About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in urban studies at Vassar are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor's in urban studies.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 10
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Concentrations Within Urban Studies

The following urban studies concentations are available at Vassar College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Vassar College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Urban Studies/Affairs 15

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 NY, the home state for Vassar College.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Managers 16,600 $124,160
Social Sciences Professors 2,570 $101,250
Urban and Regional Planners 1,410 $76,730
Sociologists 190 $75,800

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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