Ethnic Studies at Lake Forest College

If you are interested in studying ethnic studies, you may want to check out the program at Lake Forest College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Lake Forest is located in Lake Forest, Illinois and approximately 1,583 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies from Lake Forest.

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.

Lake Forest Ethnic Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Ethnic Studies

Lake Forest Ethnic Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the ethnic studies progam at Lake Forest 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 Lake Forest 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
Most Focused Ethnic Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	65
Most Focused Ethnic Studies Schools	94
Most Popular Ethnic Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	234
Most Popular Ethnic Studies Schools	306

Ethnic Studies Student Demographics at Lake Forest

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the ethnic studies majors at Lake Forest College.

Lake Forest Ethnic Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in ethnic studies from Lake Forest in 2021, 60% were men and 40% were women. The typical ethnic studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at Lake Forest since its program graduates 42% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Lake Forest College with a bachelor's in ethnic studies.

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

Lake Forest 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 IL, the home state for Lake Forest College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Interpreters and Translators	1,970	$46,320
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	450	$74,010

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 Eudaimonia86 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.