2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 88 people earned their degree in demography and population studies, making the major the 345th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, demography and population studies 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 15 demography and population studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in demography and population studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in demography and population studies.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The population studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Demography & Population Studies

1

Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clark Atlanta University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major. Clark Atlanta University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Demography & Population Studies at CAU

2

Tiffin University
Tiffin, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tiffin University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major list. Tiffin, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s population studies degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Demography & Population Studies at Tiffin University

3

Willamette University
Salem, Oregon

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Willamette University landed the #3 spot on the list. Willamette is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Salem, Oregon. It awarded 0 bachelors’s population studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Demography & Population Studies at Willamette

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.

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