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

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.