2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

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

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

1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Perkinston, Mississippi, this medium-sized public school handed out 152 degrees to qualified associates’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies students in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Report

2

Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, Arkansas

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Arkansas Tech University landed the #2 spot on the list. ATU is a medium-sized public school situated in Russellville, Arkansas. It awarded 3 associates’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies at ATU

3

Coahoma Community College
Clarksdale, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Coahoma Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. 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.

Full Coahoma Community College Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Report

• Most Popular 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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