African American Studies at Pomona College

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

Pomona is located in Claremont, California and has a total student population of 1,475.

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

Pomona African American Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in African American Studies

Pomona African American Studies Rankings

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

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the african american studies majors at Pomona College.

Pomona African American Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of african american studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical african american studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% men. So male students are more repesented at Pomona since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% more racial-ethnic minorities in its african american studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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

Related Majors

• Latino Studies
• Women’s Studies

Careers That African American Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in african american 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 CA, the home state for Pomona College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	1,280	$96,200

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 Nostalgicwisdom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.