2024 Best African American Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
12Master's Degrees
African American Studies is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #589 out of the 1172 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best African American Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 12 master's degrees in african american studies to qualified students.
Choosing a Great African American Studies School for Your Master's Degree
The african american studies master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various 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 - How many other african american studies students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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 colleges for african american studies students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank African American Studies Schools
The african american studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best African American Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
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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).