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2023 Best Value Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

7 Colleges
$27,130 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$28,759 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Museum Studies School for You

Museum Studies is the #159 most popular major in the country with 696 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 7 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value programs for museum 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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for museum studies majors pursuing a .

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Museum Studies

$11,496 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to be the best value school for museum studies students who want to pursue a degree in the Great Lakes Region . SIUE is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Edwardsville.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SIUE are $11,496 per year.

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$21,475 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the large city of Milwaukee, UWM is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UWM are $21,475 a year.

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$27,111 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UC is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Cincinnati.

UC undergraduate students pay an average of $27,111 in tuition and fees each year.

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$32,101 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Indianapolis, IUPUI is a public college with a very large student population.

IUPUI undergraduate students pay an average of $32,101 in tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 7 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at U-M are $55,097 a year.

U-M also claimed a spot on our Best Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.

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$15,500 Average Tuition & Fees

Eastern Michigan University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value museum studies programs. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Ypsilanti.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Eastern Michigan are $15,500 a year.

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#7

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Michigan State University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Michigan State is a very large public school located in the city of East Lansing.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Michigan State are $41,290 per year.

Michigan State excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Museum Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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Best Museum Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best museum studies colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 19
Illinois 34
Ohio 8
Indiana 18
Wisconsin 7

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One of 36 majors within the area of study, museum studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Museum Studies

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 2,491
Sustainability Science 1,547
Nutrition Science 1,496
Behavioral Science 1,358
Computational Science 1,063

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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