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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 San Francisco State University 16 0% $27,480
8 University of Virginia-Main Campus 16 0% $33,493
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 University of Louisville 13 0% $27,980
13 Yale University 13 0% $73,900
14 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 12 0% $36,652
15 California State University-Northridge 12 0% $22,969
16 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 0% $26,025
17 Stanford University 12 0% $71,587
18 Brandeis University 11 1% $73,335
19 University of California-Davis 10 0% $35,177
20 University of California-Santa Barbara 10 0% $36,659
21 Smith College 10 1% $72,701
22 Amherst College 10 2% $73,966
23 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 10 0% $30,913
24 Princeton University 10 1% $70,900
25 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 9 0% $30,298
26 Oberlin College 9 1% $74,636
27 University of Memphis 9 0% $25,423
28 Ohio State University-Main Campus 8 0% $27,367
29 California State University-Los Angeles 8 0% $26,139
30 University of California-Berkeley 8 0% $38,066
31 California State University-Long Beach 7 0% $24,738
32 University of North Carolina at Greensboro 7 0% $21,297
33 Mount Holyoke College 7 1% $66,558
34 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 7 0% $23,811
35 Western Illinois University 7 0% $25,997
36 Kent State University at Kent 6 0% $25,886
37 Stony Brook University 6 0% $26,091
38 Emory University 6 0% $69,502
39 Howard University 6 0% $44,651
40 University of Arizona 6 0% $29,217
41 Temple University 6 0% $33,004
42 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 6 0% $33,503
43 East Carolina University 6 0% $21,672
44 Northwestern University 6 0% $74,649
45 State University of New York at New Paltz 6 0% $25,641
46 San Diego State University 5 0% $29,318
47 California State University-Fresno 5 0% $21,418
48 Cornell University 5 0% $73,904
49 California State University-Dominguez Hills 5 0% $23,722
50 Hampshire College 5 2% $67,174
51 Indiana University-Bloomington 5 0% $24,779
52 SUNY College at Brockport 5 0% $24,608
53 University of California-Irvine 5 0% $34,261
54 Cleveland State University 4 0% $29,045
55 Florida State University 4 0% $22,168
56 Wayne State University 4 0% $27,157
57 University of Connecticut 4 0% $32,404
58 University of South Florida-Main Campus 4 0% $23,320
59 Metropolitan State University of Denver 4 0% $9,066
60 Wellesley College 4 1% $72,250
61 Tufts University 4 0% $73,500
62 University of Pennsylvania 4 0% $74,408
63 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 4 0% $27,898
64 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 4 0% $29,097
65 University of South Carolina-Columbia 4 0% $28,301
66 SUNY Oneonta 4 0% $25,028
67 Clark Atlanta University 4 1% $38,154
68 Hamilton College 4 1% $69,990
69 CUNY Brooklyn College 4 0% $8,604
70 University of Alabama at Birmingham 4 0% $26,336
71 DePaul University 4 0% $57,678
72 The University of Alabama 4 0% $29,872
73 Columbia University in the City of New York 4 0% $76,856
74 Chicago State University 3 0% $24,587
75 University at Buffalo 3 0% $27,758
76 Binghamton University 3 0% $26,866
77 Monroe Community College 3 0% $18,016
78 Pitzer College 3 1% $72,900
79 William Paterson University of New Jersey 3 0% $29,335
80 University of California-Riverside 3 0% $35,242
81 Syracuse University 3 0% $70,636
82 College of Charleston 3 0% $30,239
83 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 3 0% $22,639
84 Dartmouth College 3 0% $74,359
85 Fordham University 3 0% $74,265
86 Florida International University 3 0% $23,506
87 Loyola Marymount University 3 0% $67,369
88 Harvard University 3 0% $71,650
89 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 3 0% $32,443
90 Rutgers University-Newark 3 0% $32,708
91 Portland State University 2 0% $26,085
92 Morgan State University 2 0% $24,101
93 University of Nebraska at Omaha 2 0% $22,300
94 Washington University in St Louis 2 0% $74,361
95 Virginia Commonwealth University 2 0% $32,041
96 Purdue University-Main Campus 2 0% $22,822
97 Gettysburg College 2 0% $68,990
98 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2 0% $30,102
99 Cabrini University 2 0% $47,320
100 SUNY Cortland 2 0% $25,220

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.