2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies/Critical Theory & Analysis in the Far Western US Region

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In 2021-2022, 368 people earned their degree in cultural studies/critical theory & analysis, making the major the 699th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 42 cultural studies/critical theory & analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 cultural studies/critical theory & analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in cultural studies/critical theory & analysis. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in cultural studies/critical theory & analysis.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree cultural studies/critical theory and analysis students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies/Critical Theory & Analysis in the Far Western US Region

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Occidental College
Los Angeles, California

Top 25% overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Occidental College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s cultural studies/critical theory and analysis degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Cultural Studies/Critical Theory & Analysis at Occidental College

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Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Laie, Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Hawaii. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis Major in the Far Western US Region. Laie, Hawaii is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s cultural studies/critical theory and analysis degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full BYU - H Cultural Studies/Critical Theory & Analysis Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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