2023 Best Value International Relations & Security Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best International Relations & National Security Graduate Certificate School for You

International Relations & National Security is the #48 most popular major in the country with 5,010 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. 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 Relations & Security Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for international relations 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 International Relations & National Security Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for international relations majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in International Relations & Security

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

95 Graduate Certificates

#1 in Quality in the New England Region

$52,170 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Harvard University the best value school in the New England Region for international relations and national security students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Harvard are $52,170 a year.

Harvard also made our Best International Relations & Security Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list, coming in at #1.

Full International Relations & National Security at Harvard University Report

#2

Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester, NH

22 Graduate Certificates

$19,470 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Southern New Hampshire University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value international relations and national security schools in the New England Region . SNHU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Manchester.

SNHU graduate students pay an average of $19,470 in tuition and fees each year.

Full International Relations & National Security at Southern New Hampshire University Report

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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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