2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Gay/Lesbian Studies is the 1230th most popular major in the country with 83 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 14 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in gay/lesbian studies. That schools that top this list have a program in gay/lesbian studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree gay/lesbian studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#5 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cornell University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Cornell is a private not-for-profit institution located in Ithaca, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Gay/Lesbian Studies at Cornell University

2

Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hobart and William Smith Colleges. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. The Colleges is a private not-for-profit institution located in Geneva, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Hobart and William Smith Colleges Gay/Lesbian Studies Report

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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