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Most Popular Schools for African-American/Black Studies Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the history, sociology, politics, culture, and economics of the North American peoples descended from the African diaspora; focusing on the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean, but also including reference to Latin American elements of the diaspora.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of California-Los Angeles 40 0% $34,620
2 University of Florida 32 0% $21,211
3 Georgia State University 25 0% $26,014
4 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 23 0% $23,694
5 CUNY Lehman College 20 1% $27,857
6 The University of Texas at Austin 17 0% $26,506
7 University of Virginia-Main Campus 16 0% $33,493
8 San Francisco State University 16 0% $27,480
9 Wesleyan University 15 2% $72,669
10 University of Maryland-College Park 15 0% $27,146
11 SUNY at Albany 14 0% $26,734
12 Yale University 13 0% $73,900
13 University of Louisville 13 0% $27,980
14 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 12 0% $36,652
15 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 0% $26,025
16 California State University-Northridge 12 0% $22,969
17 Stanford University 12 0% $71,587
18 Brandeis University 11 1% $73,335
19 Amherst College 10 2% $73,966
20 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 10 0% $30,913
21 Smith College 10 1% $72,701
22 University of California-Davis 10 0% $35,177
23 University of California-Santa Barbara 10 0% $36,659
24 Princeton University 10 1% $70,900
25 University of Memphis 9 0% $25,423
26 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 9 0% $30,298
27 Oberlin College 9 1% $74,636
28 California State University-Los Angeles 8 0% $26,139
29 University of California-Berkeley 8 0% $38,066
30 Ohio State University-Main Campus 8 0% $27,367
31 Mount Holyoke College 7 1% $66,558
32 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 7 0% $23,811
33 University of North Carolina at Greensboro 7 0% $21,297
34 Western Illinois University 7 0% $25,997
35 California State University-Long Beach 7 0% $24,738
36 Stony Brook University 6 0% $26,091
37 Howard University 6 0% $44,651
38 Northwestern University 6 0% $74,649
39 Kent State University at Kent 6 0% $25,886
40 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 6 0% $33,503
41 East Carolina University 6 0% $21,672
42 Temple University 6 0% $33,004
43 Emory University 6 0% $69,502
44 State University of New York at New Paltz 6 0% $25,641
45 University of Arizona 6 0% $29,217
46 San Diego State University 5 0% $29,318
47 California State University-Fresno 5 0% $21,418
48 Hampshire College 5 2% $67,174
49 Cornell University 5 0% $73,904
50 SUNY College at Brockport 5 0% $24,608
51 University of California-Irvine 5 0% $34,261
52 Indiana University-Bloomington 5 0% $24,779
53 California State University-Dominguez Hills 5 0% $23,722
54 Clark Atlanta University 4 1% $38,154
55 Columbia University in the City of New York 4 0% $76,856
56 The University of Alabama 4 0% $29,872
57 University of Pennsylvania 4 0% $74,408
58 SUNY Oneonta 4 0% $25,028
59 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 4 0% $29,097
60 Wellesley College 4 1% $72,250
61 DePaul University 4 0% $57,678
62 Hamilton College 4 1% $69,990
63 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 4 0% $27,898
64 University of Alabama at Birmingham 4 0% $26,336
65 University of South Carolina-Columbia 4 0% $28,301
66 CUNY Brooklyn College 4 0% $8,604
67 Tufts University 4 0% $73,500
68 Florida State University 4 0% $22,168
69 Metropolitan State University of Denver 4 0% $9,066
70 University of Connecticut 4 0% $32,404
71 Wayne State University 4 0% $27,157
72 Cleveland State University 4 0% $29,045
73 University of South Florida-Main Campus 4 0% $23,320
74 Dartmouth College 3 0% $74,359
75 Florida International University 3 0% $23,506
76 College of Charleston 3 0% $30,239
77 Monroe Community College 3 0% $18,016
78 Loyola Marymount University 3 0% $67,369
79 Binghamton University 3 0% $26,866
80 Fordham University 3 0% $74,265
81 University at Buffalo 3 0% $27,758
82 Pitzer College 3 1% $72,900
83 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 3 0% $22,639
84 Harvard University 3 0% $71,650
85 University of California-Riverside 3 0% $35,242
86 Syracuse University 3 0% $70,636
87 William Paterson University of New Jersey 3 0% $29,335
88 Chicago State University 3 0% $24,587
89 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 3 0% $32,443
90 Rutgers University-Newark 3 0% $32,708
91 Purdue University-Main Campus 2 0% $22,822
92 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2 0% $30,102
93 Gettysburg College 2 0% $68,990
94 The College of Wooster 2 0% $64,000
95 Guilford College 2 1% $52,770
96 Washington University in St Louis 2 0% $74,361
97 University of Nebraska at Omaha 2 0% $22,300
98 SUNY Cortland 2 0% $25,220
99 Virginia Commonwealth University 2 0% $32,041
100 University of Rhode Island 2 0% $30,351

This list indicates the number of students that completed the African-American/Black 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.