Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Dogaro da kuɗin da maƙwabta suka bayar, Du Bois ya halarci Jami'ar Fisk, kwalejin baƙar fata a tarihi a Nashville, Tennessee, daga 1885 zuwa 1888. Tafiyarsa zuwa da zama a Kudancin shine Du Bois na farko da ya fara da wariyar launin fata na Kudancin, wanda a lokacin ya ƙunshi dokokin Jim Crow, tsattsauran ra'ayi, murkushe ƙuri'ar baƙar fata, da lynchings; na ƙarshe ya kai kololuwa a cikin shekaru goma masu zuwa. Bayan ya sami digiri na farko daga Fisk, ya halarci Kwalejin Harvard (wanda bai yarda da bashi daga Fisk ba) daga 1888 zuwa 1890, inda farfesa William James ya rinjaye shi sosai, wanda ya yi fice a falsafar Amurka. Du Bois ya biya hanyarsa ta tsawon shekaru uku a Harvard tare da kuɗi daga ayyukan bazara, gado, tallafin karatu, da rance daga abokai. A cikin 1890, Harvard ta ba Du Bois digiri na biyu, cum laude, a cikin tarihi. A cikin 1891, Du Bois ya sami tallafin karatu don halartar makarantar digiri na ilimin zamantakewa a Harvard. A cikin 1892, Du Bois ya sami tallafi daga Asusun John F. Slater don Ilimin Freedmen don halartar Jami'ar Berlin don aikin digiri. Yayin da yake dalibi a Berlin, ya yi tafiya sosai a duk faɗin Turai. Ya girma a hankali a babban birnin Jamus yayin da yake karatu tare da wasu masanan kimiyyar zamantakewar al'umma, ciki har da Gustav von Schmoller, Adolph Wagner, da Heinrich von Treitschke. Ya rubuta game da lokacinsa a Jamus: "Na iske kaina a waje na duniyar Amirka, ina dubawa. Tare da ni akwai fararen fata - ɗalibai, sanannun, malamai - waɗanda suka kalli wurin tare da ni. Ba koyaushe suke tsayawa su yi la'akari da ni a matsayin abin sha'awa ba, ko kuma wani abu na ɗan adam; Ni mutum ne kawai na ɗaliban ɗalibai masu daraja, waɗanda suke farin cikin saduwa da magana a duniya; musamman, ɓangaren duniya da na fito. " Bayan ya dawo daga Turai, Du Bois ya kammala karatunsa na digiri na biyu; a 1895 shi ne dan Afirka na farko da ya sami Ph.D. daga Jami'ar Harvard.  Tambaya: Waɗanne manyan masana kimiyyar zamantakewa ne Du Bois ya yi aiki tare?
Gustav von Schmoller, Adolph Wagner, da kuma Heinrich von Treitschke