Area Studies is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #85 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
There was only one school in Pennsylvania to review for the 2025 Best Area Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. If you would like to see more options to choose from, check out the Best Bachelor's Degree Schools in the United States ranking..
Explore societal similarities and differences as seen through cultural, biological, archaeological and linguistic lenses when you earn one of your degrees in anthropology from Southern New Hampshire University.
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Explore societal similarities and differences as seen through cultural, biological, archaeological and linguistic lenses when you earn one of your degrees in anthropology from Southern New Hampshire University.
Dickinson College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in area studies. Dickinson is a small private not-for-profit college located in the small city of Carlisle.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the area studies program make around $32,722 in the first couple years of working.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).