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Most Popular Schools for African Studies Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of one or more of the peoples of the African Continent, usually with an emphasis on Africa south of the Sahara, and including the African diasporas overseas.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of Wisconsin-Madison 27 0% $26,025
2 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 21 0% $33,503
3 University of Kansas 13 0% $26,566
4 Ohio University-Main Campus 13 0% $28,986
5 Bowdoin College 11 2% $70,710
6 Brown University 10 0% $73,802
7 Dickinson College 9 2% $71,339
8 Syracuse University 8 0% $70,636
9 Barnard College 7 1% $74,777
10 University of Chicago 7 0% $78,555
11 Davidson College 7 1% $68,594
12 University of California-Los Angeles 5 0% $34,620
13 Stanford University 5 0% $71,587
14 Rowan University 5 0% $32,099
15 Lincoln University 4 1% $25,682
16 Yale University 4 0% $73,900
17 Duke University 4 0% $74,339
18 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 3 0% $30,298
19 Tulane University of Louisiana 3 0% $72,296
20 Howard University 3 0% $44,651
21 Vassar College 3 1% $72,760
22 Lehigh University 3 0% $68,595
23 Portland State University 2 0% $26,085
24 Claremont Graduate University 2 0% N/A
25 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 2 0% $27,476
26 Lafayette College 2 0% $71,270
27 Kennesaw State University 2 0% $25,773
28 Jefferson Community and Technical College 2 0% $5,328
29 Indiana University-Bloomington 2 0% $24,779
30 Agnes Scott College 2 1% $55,625
31 Connecticut College 2 0% $71,970
32 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2 0% $30,102
33 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 1 0% $30,913
34 Emory University 1 0% $69,502
35 University of Mount Union 1 0% $43,795
36 Northwestern University 1 0% $74,649
37 Bennington College 1 1% $73,270
38 Simmons University 1 0% $59,880
39 Middlebury College 1 0% $71,980
40 Hobart William Smith Colleges 1 0% $72,040
41 Hampshire College 1 0% $67,174

This list indicates the number of students that completed the African Studies program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.