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2023 Best Value Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$33,703 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies was ranked #29 in the country. In fact 2,911 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies

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

UMass Amherst graduate students pay an average of $32,809 in tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 4 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the # 2 spot on the list. URI is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Kingston.

URI graduate students pay an average of $29,774 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Connecticut helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies schools in the New England Region . UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 a year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the small suburb of Durham, UNH is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNH are $29,992 per year.

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Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 139
Rhode Island 30
Connecticut 53
New Hampshire 2
Maine 8
Vermont 2

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Area Studies 1,825
Ethnic Studies 1,081
Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other) 5

Majors Similar to Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Psychology 42,013
Social Sciences 22,292
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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 G. Mützel.

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