Urban Education and Leadership

A program that focuses on issues and problems specific to the educational needs of populations and communities located in metropolitan, inner city, and related areas and prepares individuals to provide educational services and administrative leadership in urban contexts. Includes instruction in multicultural education, at-risk studies, urban sociology, multilingual education, urban studies and planning, human services, health services and nutrition, cross-cultural communication, diversity studies, safety and security, and urban educational administration and leadership.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 36 institutions across the United States, with a total of 1728 degrees awarded annually.

Bachelor's Degrees

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

355

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,152

awards given

Top Schools for Urban Education and Leadership

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA	381
2	University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC	189
3	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI	132
4	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Denver, CO	87
5	New Jersey City University Jersey City, NJ	72
6	University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV	72
7	Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX	69
8	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	63
9	University of Delaware Newark, DE	60
10	CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, NY	60
11	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	57
12	Brown University Providence, RI	48
13	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	45
14	Liberty University Lynchburg, VA	39
15	Davenport University Grand Rapids, MI	39
16	Metropolitan State University Saint Paul, MN	39
17	Pepperdine University Malibu, CA	36
18	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	36
19	Providence College Providence, RI	27
20	The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ	27
21	University of Memphis Memphis, TN	21
22	Kean University Union, NJ	21
23	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	18
24	Northeastern Illinois University Chicago, IL	18
25	SUNY Buffalo State University Buffalo, NY	12
26	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	12
27	University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC	12
28	University of Massachusetts-Boston Boston, MA	9
29	Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN	6
30	Faith International University Tacoma, WA	3
31	Pitzer College Claremont, CA	3
32	Florida International University Miami, FL	3
33	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	3
34	University of Toledo Toledo, OH	3
35	East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN	3
36	Arkansas Baptist College Little Rock, AR	3