2022 Best Value Culture Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Culture Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Cultural Studies & Analysis is the 312th most popular major in the country with 361 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, cultural studies and analysis graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $19,600 and had an average of $27,571 in loans still to pay off.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 cultural studies and analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent cultural studies and analysis programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the cultural studies and analysis program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Culture Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Culture Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree culture studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies & Analysis (Income $0-$30k)

#1

University of California - Irvine

Irvine, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,456 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Culture Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Irvine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of California - Irvine is a large school located in Irvine, California that handed out 2 doctorate’s culture studies degrees in 2019-2020.

UC Irvine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Cultural Studies & Analysis Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UC Irvine are $28,456, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Cultural Studies & Analysis at University of California - Irvine

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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