Latin American Studies

Liberal Arts • Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, And Group Studies

What is it about?

A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of one or more of the Hispanic peoples of the North and South American Continents outside Canada and the United States, including the study of the Pre-Columbian period and the flow of immigrants from other societies.

Numbers at a glance

455th

Popular nationwide

Search Rank on O's List

Colleges offer it

301

Graduates (2018-19)

Men: 98
Women: 203

As a Minor

Latin American Studies is relatively popular as a minor/second major with 179 people graduating with it as a minor in academic year 2018-19.

Trends

Graduates

Popularity Rank

Colleges

Number of Colleges by Type

Median Graduating Class by College Type

Number of Colleges by Size

Top 10 Public by Number of Graduates

University of Central Florida	11
University of California-Los Angeles	10
University of Arizona	10
University of Illinois at Chicago	9
University of Washington-Seattle Campus	9
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice	8
SUNY at Albany	8
Miami University-Oxford	7
California State University-Chico	7
The University of Texas at Austin	6

Average public university graduating class: 4 students.

Top 10 Private by Number of Graduates

Brigham Young University-Provo	33
Dartmouth College	11
Tulane University of Louisiana	7
Colby College	6
DePaul University	5
Brandeis University	5
Middlebury College	5
Southwestern University	5
Gonzaga University	4
Davidson College	4

Average private university graduating class: 3 students.

O's Insights on Latin American Studies

Major has been decreasing in popularity over the last 15 years.
53% of graduates come from public universities.

Related Majors

Major	Graduates	Colleges
American/United States Studies/Civilization	970	123
Asian Studies/Civilization	680	107
Area Studies, Other	546	34
Hispanic-American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American/Chicano Studies	468	37