African Studies at Duke University

What traits are you looking for in a african studies school? To help you decide if Duke University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's african studies program.

Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina and has a total student population of 16,172.

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

Duke African Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in African Studies

Duke African Studies Rankings

The african studies major at Duke is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for African 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 Studies Student Demographics at Duke

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the african studies majors at Duke University.

Duke African Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of african studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 43% went to women. The typical african studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 28% men. So male students are more repesented at Duke since its program graduates 29% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its african studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• European Studies
• Latin American Studies
• East Asian Studies
• Area Studies, Other

Careers That African Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in african 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 NC, the home state for Duke University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	260	$82,580

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 Bjoertvedt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.