2022 Best Value African Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

African Languages is the 355th most popular major in the country with 3 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 3 African languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 African languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent African languages programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the African languages program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value African Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value African Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for African Languages in the Great Lakes Region

#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 in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Wisconsin - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s African degrees to qualified students.

UW - Madison also took the #1 spot in our “Best African Languages Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523.

Read full report on African Languages at UW - Madison

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for African Languages

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.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Mark Dingemanse.

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