2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on African American Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on African American Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

African American Studies is the 389th most popular major in the country with 1,196 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 297 African American studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 African American studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on African American Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in African American studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their African American studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on African American Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree african american studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for African American Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Monroe Community College
Rochester, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on African American Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Monroe Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 0 associates’s African American studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on African American Studies at Monroe Community College

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Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on African American Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Nassau Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Nassau Community College is a fairly large public school situated in Garden City, New York. It awarded 0 associates’s African American studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Nassau Community College African American Studies Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for African American Studies

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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