2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on United States Studies Major in District of Columbia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on United States Studies Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

American U.S. Studies is the 350th most popular major in the country with 1,419 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across District of Columbia, there were 70 American U.S. studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 64 American U.S. studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on United States Studies Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in American U.S. studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their American U.S. studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for American U.S. Studies in District of Columbia

1

Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

#1 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgetown University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on United States Studies Major in District of Columbia list. Georgetown is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 25 bachelors’s United States studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on American U.S. Studies at Georgetown

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 United States 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 United States studies degrees to 33 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Read more about American U.S. Studies at GWU

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American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on United States Studies Major in District of Columbia. The American University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read full report on American U.S. Studies at The American University

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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.