by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Area Studies is the 115th most popular major in the country with 6,966 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, area studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,127 and had an average of $20,927 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 808 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,342 and $21,486 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in area studies. That schools that top this list have a program in area studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lansing Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. LCC is a fairly large public school situated in Lansing, Michigan. It awarded 1 associates’s area studies degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Adrian College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Adrian, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s area studies degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
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