2024 Best Ethnic Studies Schools in the Far Western US Region
3Colleges in the Far Western US Region
362Ethnic Studies Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in ethnic studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #523 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 Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of ethnic studies. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 362 degrees in ethnic studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of ethnic studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for ethnic studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The ethnic 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 Ethnic Studies Schools in the Far Western US Region.
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Best Schools for Ethnic Studies in the Far Western US Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the ethnic studies degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Far Western US Region Schools in Ethnic Studies
Any student who is interested in ethnic studies has to take a look at University of California - Berkeley. UC Berkeley is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Berkeley. A Best Colleges rank of #18 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UC Berkeley is a great university overall.
There were approximately 73 ethnic studies students who graduated with this degree at UC Berkeley in the most recent year we have data available.
University of California - Santa Cruz is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in ethnic studies. UC Santa Cruz is a large public university located in the city of Santa Cruz. This university ranks 19th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 48 ethnic studies students who graduated with this degree at UC Santa Cruz in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in ethnic studies needs to look into University of Oregon. UO is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Eugene. This university ranks 2nd out of 30 schools for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were approximately 25 ethnic studies students who graduated with this degree at UO in the most recent data year.
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).
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