African Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

If you plan to study african studies, take a look at what Hobart and William Smith Colleges has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

The Colleges is located in Geneva, New York and approximately 1,833 students attend the school each year.

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.

The Colleges African Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in African Studies

The Colleges African Studies Rankings

The african studies major at The Colleges 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 The Colleges

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the african studies majors at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

The Colleges African Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 80% of african studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 20% 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 The Colleges since its program graduates 52% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% 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 Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a bachelor's in african studies.

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

Related Majors

• Latin American Studies
• European Studies
• Russian Studies
• Asian Studies
• American U.S. Studies

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 NY, the home state for Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
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 Aoliveira414 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.