Ethnic Studies at The City College of New York

If you plan to study ethnic studies, take a look at what The City College of New York has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

CCNY is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 15,227.

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.

CCNY Ethnic Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Ethnic Studies

CCNY Ethnic Studies Rankings

The ethnic studies major at CCNY 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.

Ethnic Studies Student Demographics at CCNY

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the ethnic studies majors at The City College of New York.

CCNY Ethnic Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 48% of ethnic studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 52% went to women. The typical ethnic studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at CCNY since its program graduates 30% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 25% 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 The City College of New York with a bachelor's in ethnic studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Ethnic Studies

If you plan to be a ethnic studies major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at The City College of New York. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other	21

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 NY, the home state for The City College of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Interpreters and Translators	3,300	$68,940
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	1,510	$93,280

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 Elsie140 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.