2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Tennessee

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Tennessee” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Tennessee, there were 79 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $35,375 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Tennessee

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

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

1

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee

#14 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Tennessee State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Tennessee list. This fairly large school is located in Johnson City, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 masters’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full East Tennessee State University Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Report

2

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#1 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 masters’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Vanderbilt Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’s 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to G. Mützel.