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2023 Best Value Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Montana

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$6,849 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,565 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Psychology Master's Degree School for You

Psychology is one of the most popular subjects to study in Montana. With 55 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 9th out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

The Best Value Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Montana ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Montana to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for psychology students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Montana

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Psychology Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Montana Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Psychology

Our 2023 rankings named Montana State University the best value school in Montana for psychology students working on their master’s degree. Located in the town of Bozeman, MSU Bozeman is a public college with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at MSU Bozeman are $6,805 per year.

MSU Bozeman also took the #4 spot in our Best Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Montana rankings.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Montana. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Montana list. Located in the small city of Missoula, UM is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UM are $6,892 a year.

UM also took the #5 spot in our Best Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Montana rankings.

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Best Value Psychology Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Value Psychology Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 225
Colorado 1,139
Idaho 38
Wyoming 12

Psychology Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 29,224
General Psychology 8,051
Child Development & Psychology 2,576
Other Psychology 2,162

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Social Sciences 22,292
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929
History 4,391

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 Nevit Dilmen.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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