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

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Latin American Studies Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 632 people earned their degree in Latin American studies, making the major the 560th most popular in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 24 Latin American studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 Latin American 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 Latin American Studies Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Latin American studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Latin American studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Latin American Studies Major in District of Columbia”.

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

1

American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Latin American Studies Major in District of Columbia list. American University is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 4 bachelors’s Latin American studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, 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 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Latin American Studies at The American University

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 Latin American Studies Major in District of Columbia list. This large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s Latin American studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Read more about Latin American Studies at George Washington 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.