2025 Best Ethnic Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in ethnic studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #73 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 21 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Ethnic Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 712 bachelor's degrees in ethnic studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Ethnic Studies School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of ethnic studies for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

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

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to ethnic studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of ethnic studies students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt ethnic studies students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 ethnic studies related body.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Ethnic Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Ethnic Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies.

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Ethnic Studies

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

36 Annual Graduates

$55,206 Median Starting Salary

Columbia University in the City of New York is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.

Ethnic Studies bachelor's degree recipients from Columbia University in the City of New York get an earnings boost of approximately $21,683 above the average income of ethnic studies majors.

More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

12 Annual Graduates

$51,388 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat Georgetown University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies. Georgetown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington.

Ethnic Studies bachelor's degree recipients from Georgetown University get an earnings boost of approximately $17,865 above the typical earnings of ethnic studies graduates.

More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from Georgetown University

3

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

10 Annual Graduates

$34,777 Median Starting Salary

University of Maryland - College Park is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the ethnic studies program state that they receive average early career income of $34,777.

More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from University of Maryland - College Park

4

Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY

13 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Stony Brook University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies. SUNY Stony Brook is a very large public university located in the suburb of Stony Brook.More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from Stony Brook University

5

Barnard College
New York, NY

15 Annual Graduates

Barnard is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of New York.More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from Barnard College

6

George Washington University
Washington, DC

12 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from George Washington University

7

New York University
New York, NY

11 Annual Graduates

NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from New York University

8

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

27 Annual Graduates

$38,124 Median Starting Salary

Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the ethnic studies degree program at University of Delaware get $4,601 more than the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from University of Delaware

9

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

19 Annual Graduates

Pitt is a very large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

10

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

15 Annual Graduates

$30,296 Median Starting Salary

$21,899 Median Student Debt

Located in the city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population.

Soon after graduating, ethnic studies bachelor's recipients typically make an average of $30,296 at the beginning of their careers.

More information about a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Best Ethnic Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best ethnic studies colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	439
Pennsylvania	274	147
Maryland	207	74
New Jersey	193	76
Delaware	130	25
District of Columbia	126	79

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Ethnic Studies Related Rankings by Major

Ethnic Studies is one of 2 different types of Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies programs to choose from.

Ethnic Studies Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Women’s Studies	310
African American Studies	165
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other	99
Deaf Studies	46
Disability Studies	26
Ethnic Studies	23
Asian-American Studies	14
Latino Studies	12
Comparative Group Studies	10
Gay/Lesbian Studies	7

Majors Similar to Ethnic Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Area Studies	764
Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other)	1

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 G. MГјtzel. More about our data sources and methodologies.