2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for African Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” 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.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 59 African studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 African studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in African studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their African studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for African Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

Top 10% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Syracuse University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Syracuse, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s African studies degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Syracuse University African Studies Report

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Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on African Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’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%.

Read more about African Studies at Howard University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for African Studies

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.