Women’s Studies at Harvard University

If you are interested in studying women's studies, you may want to check out the program at Harvard University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 30,391.

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

Harvard Women’s Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies

Harvard Women’s Studies Rankings

The women's studies major at Harvard is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Women's 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.

Women's Studies Student Demographics at Harvard

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the women’s studies majors at Harvard University.

Harvard Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 6% of women's studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 94% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% more racial-ethnic minorities in its women's studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Folklore Studies
• African American Studies

Careers That Women’s Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in women's 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 Harvard University.

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 Elisa.rolle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.