Best Area Studies Master’s Degree Colleges in North Carolina

Unfortunately, there were no schools in North Carolina that made our Best Area Studies Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Area Studies School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of area studies for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality area studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on area studies students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of area studies students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt area studies students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized area studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for area studies students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for North Carolina

Due to absent data, we could not provide you with the area studies quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in North Carolina that both offer area studies and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Area Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Area Studies ranking.

Best Area Studies Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Area Studies Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	208	31
Georgia	190	11
Virginia	182	14
Tennessee	166	2
Alabama	151	7
Louisiana	147	4
Mississippi	145	10
Arkansas	121	10
West Virginia	112	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Area Studies

One of 2 majors within the Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies area of study, Area Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Area Studies Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
East Asian Studies	14
Latin American Studies	6
Area Studies, Other	5
American U.S. Studies	3
Asian Studies	3

Majors Similar to Area Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Ethnic Studies	4

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth. More about our data sources and methodologies.