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

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southwest Region that made our Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest 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

The area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality area, ethnic, culture, & gender 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 take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination 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 doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students who choose to seek a doctor'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 area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students go into to obtain their doctor'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, 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 Southwest Region

As a result of absent data, we could not show you the area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, 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 colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	29	21
Arizona	28	20
New Mexico	23	6

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

Major	Annual Graduates
Area Studies	104
Ethnic Studies	17

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

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	288
English Language & Literature	166
Theology & Religious Vocations	139
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	97
Communication & Journalism	78
History	69
Philosophy & Religious Studies	52
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	24
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	21

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.