2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for African Studies in District of Columbia

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In 2020-2021, 213 people earned their degree in African studies, making the major the 889th most popular in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 8 African studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 African studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in African studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in African studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree african studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for African Studies in District of Columbia

1

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in District of Columbia list. Howard University is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 1 bachelors’s African studies degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on African Studies at Howard

2

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in District of Columbia list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s African studies degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full George Washington University African Studies Report

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.