2023 Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate School for You
Area Studies is the #96 most popular major in the country with 1,825 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
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The Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 11 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for area studies majors pursuing a graduate certificate.
Top 10 Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools
Our analysis found Duke University to be the best value school for area studies students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Duke is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Durham.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Duke are $59,141 a year.
Duke excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list.
Out of the 11 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the # 2 spot on the list. UF is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Gainesville.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UF are $30,130 a year.
UF excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public school with a fairly large student population.
Iowa graduate students pay an average of $31,012 in tuition and fees each year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Iowa also did well on our Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Tempe.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at ASU - Tempe are $24,432 per year.
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Out of the 11 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Portland State University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Portland, Portland State University is a public college with a very large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Portland State University are $24,009 a year.
Read full report on Area Studies at Portland State University
Columbia University in the City of New York ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 per year.
Columbia also claimed a spot on our Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.
Read full report on Area Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York
University of Louisville did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for area studies students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. Located in the city of Louisville, UofL is a public school with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UofL are $27,839 a year.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate area studies programs. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at U-M are $50,464 a year.
In addition to its great value ranking, U-M is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list.
With a ranking of #9, Syracuse University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for area studies students working on their graduate certificate. Syracuse is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Syracuse.
Syracuse graduate students pay an average of $42,954 in tuition and fees each year.
University of Massachusetts Amherst ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Amherst.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UMass Amherst are $32,809 a year.
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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 |
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| Ethnic Studies | 1,081 |
| Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other) | 5 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 11 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.
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