African American Black Studies

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.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 176 institutions across the United States, with a total of 2776 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

752

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,858

awards given

Top Schools for African American Black Studies

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	102
2	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	96
3	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	74
4	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	69
5	University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC	54
6	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	54
7	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	54
8	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	51
9	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	51
10	San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA	48
11	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	45
12	Georgia State University Atlanta, GA	45
13	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	45
14	California State University-Northridge Northridge, CA	42
15	Yale University New Haven, CT	39
16	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	39
17	Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA	36
18	University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC	36
19	Florida International University Miami, FL	36
20	University of Memphis Memphis, TN	36
21	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	36
22	Wayne State University Detroit, MI	33
23	University at Albany Albany, NY	33
24	New York University New York, NY	33
25	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	33
26	CUNY Lehman College Bronx, NY	33
27	Oberlin College Oberlin, OH	30
28	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	30
29	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	30
30	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	27
31	Amherst College Amherst, MA	27
32	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	27
33	State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, NY	27
34	The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL	24
35	Howard University Washington, DC	24
36	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	24
37	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	24
38	Duke University Durham, NC	24
39	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	24
40	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	24
41	San Diego State University San Diego, CA	21
42	Smith College Northampton, MA	21
43	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	21
44	University of Puget Sound Tacoma, WA	21
45	University of Georgia Athens, GA	18
46	California State University-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	18
47	Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA	18
48	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	18
49	Tufts University Medford, MA	18
50	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	18
51	University of Delaware Newark, DE	15
52	Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Tallahassee, FL	15
53	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	15
54	Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA	15
55	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	15
56	SUNY Oneonta Oneonta, NY	15
57	Emory University Atlanta, GA	15
58	Stanford University Stanford, CA	15
59	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	15
60	University of Massachusetts-Boston Boston, MA	15
61	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL	15
62	Rutgers University-Newark Newark, NJ	15
63	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	15
64	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	15
65	University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI	12
66	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	12
67	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	12
68	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	12
69	University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA	12
70	Pomona College Claremont, CA	12
71	Wesleyan University Middletown, CT	12
72	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	12
73	DePaul University Chicago, IL	12
74	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	12
75	Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL	12
76	University of Louisville Louisville, KY	12
77	Bates College Lewiston, ME	12
78	University of Maryland-Baltimore County Baltimore, MD	12
79	Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA	12
80	Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI	12
81	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	12
82	SUNY Brockport Brockport, NY	12
83	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	12
84	Claflin University Orangeburg, SC	12
85	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	12
86	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI	12
87	Cleveland State University Cleveland, OH	9
88	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	9
89	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH	9
90	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, TN	9
91	Georgetown University Washington, DC	9
92	University of Miami Coral Gables, FL	9
93	California State University-Dominguez Hills Carson, CA	9
94	Binghamton University Vestal, NY	9
95	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	9
96	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	9
97	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	9
98	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	9
99	San Jose State University San Jose, CA	9
100	Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA	9