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2023 Best Value International Relations & Security Doctor's Degree Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$48,888 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,080 Avg Salary

Finding the Best International Relations & National Security Doctor's Degree School for You

International Relations & National Security is the #49 most popular major in California with 534 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value International Relations & Security Doctor's Degree Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for international relations 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 International Relations & National Security Doctor’s Degree Schools in California

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for international relations majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in International Relations & Security

Our analysis found Claremont Graduate University to be the best value school for international relations and national security students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in California. Located in the suburb of Claremont, Claremont Graduate University is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Claremont Graduate University graduate students pay an average of $36,380 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Claremont Graduate University also made our Best International Relations & Security Doctor’s Degree Schools in California list, coming in at #2.

Read full report on International Relations & National Security at Claremont Graduate University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value International Relations & Security Doctor’s Degree Schools in California list. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

USC graduate students pay an average of $61,396 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, USC also is in the top 15% of our Best International Relations & Security Doctor’s Degree Schools in California ranking.

Full International Relations & National Security at University of Southern California Report

Best Value International Relations & National Security Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value International Relations & National Security Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 13
Hawaii 17

One of 12 majors within the area of study, international relations and national security has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Economics 6,173
Political Science & Government 2,664
Geography & Cartography 2,315
Sociology 1,907
Anthropology 1,446

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).
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