Ethnic Studies at California State University - Long Beach

If you are interested in studying ethnic studies, you may want to check out the program at California State University - Long Beach. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CSULB is located in Long Beach, California and approximately 40,069 students attend the school each year. Of the 9,179 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from California State University - Long Beach in 2021, 98 of them were ethnic studies majors.

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

CSULB Ethnic Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Ethnic Studies

CSULB Ethnic Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the ethnic studies progam at CSULB compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The ethnic studies major at CSULB is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Ethnic 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	88

How Much Do Ethnic Studies Graduates from CSULB Make?

The median salary of ethnic studies students who receive their bachelor's degree at CSULB is $25,929. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $29,213 for all ethnic studies students.

Ethnic Studies Student Demographics at CSULB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the ethnic studies majors at California State University - Long Beach.

CSULB Ethnic Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 98 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from CSULB in 2021, 24% were men and 76% were women. The typical ethnic studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at CSULB since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 21% more racial-ethnic minorities in its ethnic studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Long Beach with a bachelor's in ethnic studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	59
White	10
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

CSULB also has a doctoral program available in ethnic studies. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Area Studies

Careers That Ethnic Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in ethnic 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 CA, the home state for California State University - Long Beach.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Interpreters and Translators	9,310	$58,180
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	1,280	$96,200

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 Summum under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.