2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on African Studies Major

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on African Studies Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 African studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on African Studies Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in African studies. That schools that top this list have a program in African studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on African Studies Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on African Studies Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for African Studies

1

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on African Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s African studies students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Full Howard University African Studies Report

2

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

#11 overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on African Studies Major list. This fairly large school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s African studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on African Studies at Brown University

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.