2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Ohio

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Ohio” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 16,243 people earned their degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies, making the major the 30th most popular in the United States. 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 Ohio, there were 453 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,023 and $25,180 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,351 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Ohio” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Ohio

The colleges and universities below are the best for ohio doctor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in Ohio

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Bowling Green State University - Main Campus
Bowling Green, Ohio

#24 overall quality in Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Ohio list. BGSU is a fairly large school located in Bowling Green, Ohio that handed out 7 doctorate’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio

#2 overall quality in Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Ohio that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Ohio State University - Main Campus is a large public school situated in Columbus, Ohio. It awarded 5 doctorate’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

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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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