A degree in ethnic studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #99 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for ethnic studies students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 138 degrees in ethnic studies annually.
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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 Ethnic Studies Schools in Connecticut list to help you make the college decision.
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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.
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the ethnic studies degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student pursuing a degree in ethnic studies needs to look into Yale University. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the ethnic studies program state that they receive average early career income of $32,624.
It's hard to beat University of Connecticut if you wish to pursue a degree in ethnic studies. Located in the town of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Those ethnic studies students who get their degree from University of Connecticut make $6,299 more than the standard ethnic studies student.
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).
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