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

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.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 172 bachelor's degrees in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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

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 colleges 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 Florida 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 Florida

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

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

1

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

54 Annual Graduates

University of Florida is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies. UF is a fairly large public university located in the city of Gainesville.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from University of Florida

2

Florida International University
Miami, FL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

51 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies has to take a look at Florida International University. Located in the large suburb of Miami, FIU is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies from Florida International University

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

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
North Carolina	34	430
Mississippi	34	4
Virginia	34	242
Alabama	33	29
Georgia	33	191
West Virginia	32	4
Tennessee	32	70
South Carolina	32	141
Kentucky	31	79
Louisiana	31	17
Arkansas	30	0

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

Major	Annual Graduates
Ethnic Studies	100
Area Studies	72

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

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	6,973
Communication & Journalism	4,791
English Language & Literature	1,827
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	1,114
History	848
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	546
Theology & Religious Vocations	435
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	421
Philosophy & Religious Studies	360

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.