2023 Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Michigan for a Master’s

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 Michigan for a Master’s” 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 Michigan, there were 344 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,546 and $23,887 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,121 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Michigan for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Michigan for a Master’s

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

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in Michigan

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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#1 overall quality in Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Michigan for a Master’s list. U-M is a large public school situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It awarded 11 masters’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

#16 overall quality in Michigan

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Michigan for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees to qualified students.

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#2 overall quality in Michigan

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Major in Michigan for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Michigan State is a large public school situated in East Lansing, Michigan. It awarded 12 masters’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Popular 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.