2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Gay/Lesbian Studies is the 1230th most popular major in the country with 85 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 10 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in gay/lesbian studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their gay/lesbian studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree gay/lesbian studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#5 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Cornell University is a large school located in Ithaca, New York that handed out 10 bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

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2

Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York

Top 25% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hobart and William Smith Colleges. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Hobart and William Smith Colleges is a small school located in Geneva, New York that handed out 0 bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian 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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