2023 Best Value Area Studies Schools in the New England Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Area Studies 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 Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 7 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value programs for area studies students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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 Schools in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Area Studies Colleges.
Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Area Studies
Our analysis found Trinity College to be the best value school for area studies students who want to pursue a degree in the New England Region . Located in the medium-sized city of Hartford, Trinity Bantams is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Trinity Bantams undergraduate students pay an average of $61,370 in tuition and fees each year.
Out of the 7 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Brown are $62,304 per year.
Brown did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Area Studies Schools in the New England Region list.
The excellent programs at Yale University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best area studies schools in the New England Region . Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New Haven.
Yale undergraduate students pay an average of $59,950 in tuition and fees each year.
Yale also made our Best Area Studies Schools in the New England Region list, coming in at #5.
The excellent programs at Brandeis University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best 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.
Brandeis undergraduate students pay an average of $60,006 in tuition and fees each year.
The excellent programs at University of Massachusetts Amherst helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best area studies schools in the New England Region . UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UMass Amherst are $36,964 a year.
University of Connecticut ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Area Studies Schools in the New England Region list. UCONN is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Storrs.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UCONN are $41,192 per year.
University of Massachusetts - Boston did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for area studies students. It came in at #7 on the list. UMass Boston is a large public school located in the large city of Boston.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UMass Boston are $35,139 a 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 |
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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 7 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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