2024 Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in California
7Colleges in California
35Doctor's Degrees
If you're seeking a Doctor's Degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #24 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 35 doctor's degrees in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree
The area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Programs
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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).