2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on American Indian Studies Major in Arizona

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on American Indian Studies Major in Arizona” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 527 people earned their degree in Native American studies, making the major the 585th most popular in the United States.

Across Arizona, there were 25 Native American studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 Native American studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,087 and $27,181 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on American Indian Studies Major in Arizona” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in Native American studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Native American studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on American Indian Studies Major in Arizona

The colleges and universities below are the best for arizona bachelor’s degree american indian studies students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Native American Studies in Arizona

1

Dine College
Tsaile, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dine College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on American Indian Studies Major in Arizona list. Dine College is a small public school situated in Tsaile, Arizona. It awarded 1 bachelors’s American Indian studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#2 overall quality in Arizona

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on American Indian Studies Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a public institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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3

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#3 overall quality in Arizona

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on American Indian Studies Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s American Indian studies students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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4

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

#6 overall quality in Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on American Indian Studies Major in Arizona list. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona, this large public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s American Indian studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full NAU Native American Studies Report

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Native 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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