Popular minors and concurrent degree options for Urban and Regional Studies (URS) students include Engineering, Business, Computer Science, Landscape Architecture, Government, etc. URS graduates have gone on to law school, medical school, graduate programs in planning and design - but as many students go right into the workforce.
Some graduates are focused on things like local governance, grassroots political efforts, issues-based lobbying, food and housing security, etc. Other students go to work in construction and engineering fields or get jobs in the private sector making quite a comfortable starting salary!