2022 Best Value African Schools for a Doctorate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value African Schools for a Doctorate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 3 people earned their degree in African languages, making the major the 355th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, African languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 African languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality African languages programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the African languages program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value African Schools for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value African Schools for a Doctorate.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for African Languages

#1

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$25,523 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value African Schools for a Doctorate list. University of Wisconsin - Madison is a large school located in Madison, Wisconsin that handed out 1 doctorate’s African degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison also made our “Best African Languages Doctor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about African Languages at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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 Mark Dingemanse.

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