Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies at Seattle Pacific University

If you plan to study area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies, take a look at what Seattle Pacific University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SPU is located in Seattle, Washington and has a total student population of 3,601. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 students received a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies from SPU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies section at the bottom of this page.

SPU Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies

SPU Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies programs across the country. The following shows how SPU performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies major at SPU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender 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 Popular Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies Schools	157

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Student Demographics at SPU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies majors at Seattle Pacific University.

SPU Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 23 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies from SPU in 2020-2021, 17% were men and 83% were women.

About 52% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies at SPU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a bachelor's in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	12
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

SPU also has a doctoral program available in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies

If you plan to be a area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Seattle Pacific University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Ethnic Studies	15
Area Studies	8

Related Majors

• Family, Consumer & Human Sciences
• History
• Communication & Journalism
• Social Sciences
• Psychology

Careers That Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender 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 WA, the home state for Seattle Pacific University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Interpreters and Translators	880	$48,560
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	180	$75,940

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 Westlake78 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.