by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Arizona for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Arizona, there were 98 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,593 and $23,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,087 and $27,181 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Arizona for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in area studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful area studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Arizona for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Arizona for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Arizona for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 44 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s area studies students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Arizona for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 9 bachelors’s area studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.
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