2024 Best American U.S. Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
4Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
21Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in american u.s. studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #174 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best American U.S. Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 21 doctor's degrees in american u.s. studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great American U.S. Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree
The united states studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality united states studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on american u.s. studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other american u.s. studies students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized american u.s. studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for american u.s. studies students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best American U.S. Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured American U.S. Studies Programs
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).