Area, Ethnic, and Civilization Studies
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Early Career Income
$68,859
Lifetime Income
$3.60M
Unemployment rate
3.8%
Female share
69.6%
Occupation concentration
39.7%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
28.5%
% who double-major
44.9%
BA Graduates from 2024
8,282
-4.4% vs 2023
How Area, Ethnic, and Civilization Studies compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
47th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 47% of majors
20th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 20% of majors
31st
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 31% of majors
Top occupations
- Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
- Elementary and Middle School Teachers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Area, Ethnic, and Civilization Studies.
- African Studies
- American/United States Studies/Civilization
- Asian Studies/Civilization
- East Asian Studies
- Russian, Central European, East European and Eurasian Studies
- European Studies/Civilization
- Latin American Studies
- Near and Middle Eastern Studies
- Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies
- Russian Studies
- Scandinavian Studies
- South Asian Studies
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- Southeast Asian Studies
- Western European Studies
- Canadian Studies
- Balkans Studies
- Baltic Studies
- Slavic Studies
- Caribbean Studies
- Ural-Altaic and Central Asian Studies
- Commonwealth Studies
- Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign)
- Chinese Studies
- French Studies
- German Studies
- Italian Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Korean Studies
- Polish Studies
- Spanish and Iberian Studies
- Tibetan Studies
- Ukraine Studies
- Irish Studies
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Appalachian Studies
- Arctic Studies
- Area Studies, Other
- Ethnic Studies
- African-American/Black Studies
- American Indian/Native American Studies
- Hispanic-American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American/Chicano Studies
- Asian-American Studies
- Women's Studies
- Gay/Lesbian Studies
- Folklore Studies
- Disability Studies
- Deaf Studies
- Comparative Group Studies
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies, Other
- Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology