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Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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2023 Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$32,809 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named University of Massachusetts Amherst the best value school in the New England Region for area studies students working on their graduate certificate. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMass Amherst are $32,809 per year.

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Best Area Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best area studies colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 111
Connecticut 32
Rhode Island 27
Maine 0

Area Studies is one of 2 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ethnic Studies 1,081
Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other) 5

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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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