2024 Best African American Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
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If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in african american studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #330 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 reviewed 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of african american studies. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 10 doctor's degrees in african american studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great African American Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of african american studies for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to african american studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of african american studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized african american studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for african american studies students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank African American Studies Schools
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 African American Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured African American 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).