2025 Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #26 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 27 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,477 bachelor's degrees in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Your choice of area, ethnic, culture, & gender 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

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

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 - The number of area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• 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 much debt area, ethnic, culture, & gender 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 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 bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college 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 Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies.

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies

1

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

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

100 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

37 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Georgetown University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies. Located in the city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Georgetown University

3

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

45 Annual Graduates

Cornell University is a good option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies. Cornell is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Ithaca.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Cornell University

4

Fordham University
Bronx, NY

64 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Fordham University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies. Located in the city of Bronx, Fordham U is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Fordham University

5

Barnard College
New York, NY

38 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of New York, Barnard is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Barnard College

6

George Washington University
Washington, DC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

42 Annual Graduates

GWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from George Washington University

7

Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY

23 Annual Graduates

The Colleges is a small private not-for-profit college located in the distant town of Geneva.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Hobart and William Smith Colleges

8

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

UMCP is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of College Park.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from University of Maryland - College Park

9

Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

22 Annual Graduates

Located in the large suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Stony Brook University

10

New York University
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from New York University

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

Explore the best area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	37	331
New York	37	952
New Jersey	34	122
Maryland	33	206
Delaware	30	31
District of Columbia	28	166

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

Major	Annual Graduates
Area Studies	764
Ethnic Studies	712
Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other)	1

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

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	27,861
Communication & Journalism	13,707
English Language & Literature	6,150
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	5,798
Philosophy & Religious Studies	4,622
History	4,391
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	2,950
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	1,583
Theology & Religious Vocations	467

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.