2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in the Southeast Region

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Ethnic Studies is the 99th most popular major in the country with 9,231 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ethnic studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,818 and had an average of $22,901 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 964 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,606 and $25,214 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ethnic studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in ethnic studies.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree ethnic studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in the Southeast Region

1

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s ethnic studies students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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 more about Ethnic Studies at Emory

2

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisville landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Louisville is a large public school situated in Louisville, Kentucky. It awarded 2 doctorate’s ethnic studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UofL Ethnic Studies Report

3

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southeast Region. UK is located in Lexington, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 doctorate’s ethnic studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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.

Full University of Kentucky Ethnic Studies Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic 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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