African American Studies at Amherst College

Every african american studies school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the african american studies program at Amherst College stacks up to those at other schools.

Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 1,745 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in African American Studies section at the bottom of this page.

Amherst African American Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in African American Studies

Amherst African American Studies Rankings

The african american studies major at Amherst is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for African American Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

African American Studies Student Demographics at Amherst

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the african american studies majors at Amherst College.

Amherst African American Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 56% of african american studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 44% went to women. The typical african american studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% men. So male students are more repesented at Amherst since its program graduates 27% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% more racial-ethnic minorities in its african american studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's in african american studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Women’s Studies

Careers That African American Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in african american studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Amherst College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	470	$98,380

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.