Area Studies

Instructional content for this group of programs is defined in codes 05.0101 - 05.0199.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 393 institutions across the United States, with a total of 19009 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

516

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

165

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

3,649

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

127

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

1,407

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

254

degrees awarded

Other Awards

12,891

awards given

Top Schools for Area Studies

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

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth, TX	2,274
2	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	576
3	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	571
4	Georgetown University Washington, DC	480
5	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	468
6	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	412
7	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	393
8	New York University New York, NY	318
9	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	315
10	Coastline Community College Fountain Valley, CA	300
11	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	273
12	Wesleyan University Middletown, CT	243
13	Yale University New Haven, CT	231
14	Brown University Providence, RI	228
15	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	189
16	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	186
17	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	186
18	Ohio University-Main Campus Athens, OH	184
19	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	174
20	Fordham University Bronx, NY	171
21	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	171
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	165
23	Duke University Durham, NC	162
24	Florida International University Miami, FL	153
25	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	153
26	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	147
27	University of Maryland Global Campus Adelphi, MD	147
28	University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO	141
29	Stanford University Stanford, CA	132
30	William & Mary Williamsburg, VA	126
31	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	123
32	Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME	117
33	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	117
34	California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA	117
35	George Washington University Washington, DC	117
36	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	117
37	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	114
38	Emory University Atlanta, GA	111
39	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	109
40	Oberlin College Oberlin, OH	105
41	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	102
42	Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH	102
43	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	102
44	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI	98
45	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	98
46	Utah State University Logan, UT	96
47	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI	96
48	Boston University Boston, MA	96
49	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	96
50	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	93
51	Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Slippery Rock, PA	92
52	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	90
53	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	87
54	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	84
55	Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA	81
56	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	81
57	Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA	78
58	Tufts University Medford, MA	78
59	American University Washington, DC	78
60	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	75
61	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	75
62	Smith College Northampton, MA	72
63	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	72
64	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	72
65	Barnard College New York, NY	69
66	California State University-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	66
67	Wellesley College Wellesley, MA	66
68	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	66
69	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	66
70	University of Oregon Eugene, OR	63
71	University of Massachusetts-Boston Boston, MA	63
72	University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA	63
73	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	63
74	University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque, NM	63
75	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	60
76	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	60
77	Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA	60
78	Trinity College Hartford, CT	60
79	Amherst College Amherst, MA	60
80	Connecticut College New London, CT	57
81	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	57
82	Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY	57
83	Dickinson College Carlisle, PA	57
84	University at Albany Albany, NY	57
85	Hobart William Smith Colleges Geneva, NY	57
86	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	57
87	University of Guam Mangilao, GU	54
88	Nevada State University Henderson, NV	54
89	Williams College Williamstown, MA	54
90	Carleton College Northfield, MN	54
91	Colby College Waterville, ME	51
92	Davidson College Davidson, NC	51
93	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	51
94	Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Bowling Green, OH	51
95	California State University-Chico Chico, CA	51
96	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	48
97	Furman University Greenville, SC	48
98	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH	48
99	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	48
100	Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA	45