2023 Best Value Economics Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Economics Master's Degree School for You
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The Best Value Economics Master's Degree 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. Our analysis looked at 17 schools in the New England Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for economics students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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 Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for economics majors pursuing a master's degree.
Top 10 Best Economics Master's Degree Schools
Our analysis found Yale University to be the best value school for economics students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the New England Region . Yale is a large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of New Haven.
Yale graduate students pay an average of $45,700 in tuition and fees each year.
Yale also took the #4 spot in our Best Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region rankings.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Boston College is a great value for economics students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Chestnut Hill, Boston College is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
Boston College graduate students pay an average of $32,722 in tuition and fees each year.
Boston College excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Northeastern University is a great value for economics students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northeastern are $26,095 per year.
Northeastern excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Cambridge.
Harvard graduate students pay an average of $52,170 in tuition and fees each year.
Harvard also took the #5 spot in our Best Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region rankings.
Out of the 17 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
Brown graduate students pay an average of $62,083 in tuition and fees each year.
Brown also made our Best Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list, coming in at #3.
Tufts University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. Located in the large suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
Tufts graduate students pay an average of $55,216 in tuition and fees each year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Tufts also did well on our Best Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
University of Massachusetts Amherst ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMass Amherst are $32,809 per year.
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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the small suburb of Durham, UNH is a public school with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNH are $29,992 a year.
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University of Vermont ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Economics Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. UVM is a large public school located in the small city of Burlington.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UVM are $33,246 per year.
University of Rhode Island landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree economics programs. URI is a large public school located in the suburb of Kingston.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at URI are $29,774 per year.
Best Economics Colleges by State
Explore the best economics schools for a specific state in the New England region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 701 |
| Connecticut | 85 |
| Rhode Island | 34 |
| New Hampshire | 27 |
| Maine | 9 |
| Vermont | 6 |
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Majors Related to Economics
One of 12 majors within the area of study, economics has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Economics
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| International Relations & National Security | 5,010 |
| Political Science & Government | 2,664 |
| Geography & Cartography | 2,315 |
| Sociology | 1,907 |
| Anthropology | 1,446 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 17 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).
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