2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region
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Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies is the 30th most popular major in the country with 16,240 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,827 and had an average of $22,562 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 1,704 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,869 and $19,091 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 60 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region.
Top 6 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region. Yale University is a fairly large school located in New Haven, Connecticut that handed out 17 doctorate’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2019-2020.
Yale did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Yale University are $44,500.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2019-2020.
UMass Amherst did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMass Amherst are $32,341, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 25 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies students in 2019-2020.
Harvard also made our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard are $50,654, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brandeis University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Waltham, Massachusetts, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2019-2020.
Brandeis also took the #4 spot in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Brandeis are $52,060, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region. Boston University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Boston U also made our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #5. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #5 spot on the list. Brown is a medium-sized school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 9 doctorate’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2019-2020.
Brown not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Brown are $60,363, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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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
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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