2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Major
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
African Languages is the 382nd most popular major in the country with 4 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, African languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 African languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in African languages. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in African languages.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree african students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for African Languages
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Major list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s African degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on African Languages at UW - Madison
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #2 spot on the list. Harvard University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It awarded 0 bachelors’s African degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Harvard University African Languages Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on African Major. New Brunswick, New Jersey is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s African degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Full Rutgers University - New Brunswick African Languages Report
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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%.
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- *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.
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