2023 Best Value Area Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Area Studies Doctor's Degree School for You
Area Studies is the #96 most popular major in the country with 1,825 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Area Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for area studies students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Area Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Area Studies Doctor's Degree Colleges.
Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Area Studies
Our 2023 rankings named Brown University the best value school in the New England Region for area studies students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Brown are $62,083 per year.
Brown did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Area Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list.
Out of the 3 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Yale University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of New Haven.
Yale graduate students pay an average of $45,700 in tuition and fees each year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Yale is ranked #5 for overall quality for area studies in the New England Region .
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Brandeis University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value area studies schools in the New England Region . Brandeis is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Waltham.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Brandeis are $53,618 a year.
Best Area Studies Colleges by State
Explore the best area studies schools for a specific state in the New England region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 111 |
| Connecticut | 32 |
| Rhode Island | 27 |
| Maine | 0 |
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Majors Related to Area Studies
Area Studies is one of 2 different types of programs to choose from.
Most Popular Related Majors
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Ethnic Studies | 1,081 |
| Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other) | 5 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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