2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies is the 30th most popular major in the country with 16,243 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,881 and had an average of $22,102 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,947 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,927 and $23,184 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 155 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. That schools that top this list have a program in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in the Southeast Region

1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is located in Perkinston, Mississippi and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 152 associates’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees to qualified students.

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2

Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region. This medium-sized school is located in Russellville, Arkansas, and it awarded 3 associates’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Coahoma Community College
Clarksdale, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coahoma Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Clarksdale, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender 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.

Credits

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