2025 Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Connecticut

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studiesbachelor's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #26 out of the 38 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 266 bachelor's degrees in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 - How many other area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 easy is it for area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools

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 Connecticut list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in Connecticut

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Connecticut Schools for a Bachelor's in Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies

1

Yale University
New Haven, CT

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

88 Annual Graduates

Yale University is a good decision for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of New Haven.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Yale University

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

35 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies has to check out University of Connecticut. UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the town of Storrs.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from University of Connecticut

Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	33	555
New Hampshire	32	112
Vermont	32	59
Maine	32	102
Rhode Island	32	122

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

Major	Annual Graduates
Area Studies	173
Ethnic Studies	93

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	2,659
Communication & Journalism	1,042
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	623
English Language & Literature	501
History	376
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	303
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	217
Philosophy & Religious Studies	134
Theology & Religious Vocations	32

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.