2022 Best Value African American Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value African American Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

African American Studies is the 394th most popular major in the country with 1,267 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 59 African American studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 African American studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value African American Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in African American studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent African American studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the African American studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value African American Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value African American Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for African American Studies in Pennsylvania

#1

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$23,521 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value African American Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s African American studies degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

Temple also took the #2 spot in our “Best African American Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Temple University is $23,521 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree african american studies students.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#2

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$26,513 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value African American Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Gettysburg College landed the #2 spot on the list. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s African American studies degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Gettysburg did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best African American Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $26,513 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree African American Studies students per year to attend Gettysburg College.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.

Read full report on African American Studies at Gettysburg

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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