Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies for getting your doctor'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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor'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 many resources a school devotes to area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 easy is it for area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Because of lacking data, we were not able to provide you with the area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies ranking.

Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Indiana	29	15
Michigan	29	12
Ohio	29	12
Illinois	29	11
Wisconsin	27	3

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Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Ethnic Studies	31
Area Studies	25

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	591
Theology & Religious Vocations	324
English Language & Literature	231
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	211
History	162
Communication & Journalism	128
Philosophy & Religious Studies	100
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	41
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	3

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. Mützel. More about our data sources and methodologies.