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Most Popular Schools for Near and Middle Eastern Studies Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of one or more of the peoples of North Africa, Southwestern Asia, Asia Minor, and the Arabian Peninsula, related borderlands and island groups, and including emigrant and immigrant groups.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of Chicago 30 1% $78,555
2 Princeton University 23 1% $70,900
3 Georgetown University 22 0% $73,840
4 New York University 20 0% $73,566
5 Harvard University 19 0% $71,650
6 Brandeis University 19 1% $73,335
7 The University of Texas at Austin 15 0% $26,506
8 University of Arizona 11 0% $29,217
9 CUNY Graduate School and University Center 11 1% N/A
10 University of Utah 9 0% $24,472
11 University of California-Berkeley 9 0% $38,066
12 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania 8 0% $25,147
13 Williams College 8 1% $73,200
14 George Mason University 8 0% $30,284
15 University of Wisconsin-Madison 6 0% $26,025
16 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 6 0% $30,913
17 Florida State University 5 0% $22,168
18 Brown University 5 0% $73,802
19 Cornell University 5 0% $73,904
20 Colgate University 5 1% $72,275
21 University of California-Santa Barbara 4 0% $36,659
22 University of California-Los Angeles 4 0% $34,620
23 Fordham University 4 0% $74,265
24 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 4 0% $27,638
25 Northwestern University 4 0% $74,649
26 University of Pennsylvania 4 0% $74,408
27 Middlebury College 3 0% $71,980
28 University of California-Riverside 3 0% $35,242
29 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 3 0% $32,443
30 Washington University in St Louis 3 0% $74,361
31 Tufts University 3 0% $73,500
32 McDaniel College 3 0% $57,610
33 United States Military Academy 3 0% N/A
34 University of Akron Main Campus 2 0% $27,279
35 Dickinson College 2 0% $71,339
36 University of Toledo 2 0% $28,423
37 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 2 0% $30,298
38 Wellesley College 2 0% $72,250
39 Mount Holyoke College 2 0% $66,558
40 Johns Hopkins University 2 0% $71,901
41 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 2 0% $27,476
42 Boston College 2 0% $73,092
43 Emory University 2 0% $69,502
44 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2 0% $24,486
45 Portland State University 2 0% $26,085
46 Swarthmore College 1 0% $71,167
47 Hampshire College 1 0% $67,174
48 Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus 1 0% $28,595
49 University of Southern California 1 0% $74,825
50 Rowan University 1 0% $32,099
51 Pomona College 1 0% $71,996
52 University of California-Irvine 1 0% $34,261
53 University of Michigan-Dearborn 1 0% $14,230
54 University of Richmond 1 0% $67,020
55 Yale University 1 0% $73,900
56 American University 1 0% $66,268
57 Pitzer College 1 0% $72,900
58 Columbia University in the City of New York 1 0% $76,856
59 Boston University 1 0% $72,618
60 Syracuse University 1 0% $70,636

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Near and Middle Eastern 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.