2023 Best Value International Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best International Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

International Studies is the #145 most popular major in the country with 918 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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 International Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

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

Best International Studies Graduate Certificate School

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

1 Graduate Certificates

#15 in Quality in the Great Lakes Region

$38,638 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Michigan State University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for international studies students working on their graduate certificate. Michigan State is a fairly large public school located in the city of East Lansing.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Michigan State are $38,638 a year.

Michigan State excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best International Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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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).
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