Disability Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY

If you are interested in studying disability studies, you may want to check out the program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

The Graduate Center is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 9,300.

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

The Graduate Center Disability Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Disability Studies
• Master’s Degree in Disability Studies

Online Classes Are Available at The Graduate Center

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? The Graduate Center offers distance education options for disability studies at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

The Graduate Center Disability Studies Rankings

Disability Studies Student Demographics at The Graduate Center

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the disability studies majors at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

The Graduate Center Disability Studies Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 12% of disability studies master's degrees went to men and 88% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 9% men graduate in disability studies each year. The Graduate Center does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 3% more men than average.

Of the students who received a disability studies master's degree from The Graduate Center, 64% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the disability studies master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 36% of degree recipients. That is 6% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The Graduate Center, CUNY with a master's in disability studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	32
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other
• African American Studies
• Women’s Studies

Careers That Disability Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in disability 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 NY, the home state for The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	1,510	$93,280

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 Alex Irklievski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.