The main focus area for this major is East Asian Studies. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Area Studies is a major offered under the area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies program of study at North Central College. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in area studies, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The area studies major at North Central is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Area 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.
Here are some of the other rankings for North Central.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at North Central paid an average of $1,280 per credit hour. No discount was available for in-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $41,000 | $41,000 |
Fees | $180 | $180 |
Books and Supplies | $1,200 | $1,200 |
On Campus Room and Board | $11,782 | $11,782 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,722 | $1,722 |
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Online degrees for the North Central area studies bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the North Central Online Learning page.
Women made up around 66.7% of the area studies students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 65.8%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in area studies at North Central in 2019-2020, 33.3% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 41%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 2 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Area Studies students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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East Asian Studies | 3 |
*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.