2022 Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region
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Area Studies is the 106th most popular major in the country with 6,820 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, area studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,734 and had an average of $23,024 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 1,061 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,773 and $17,347 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 119 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in area studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent area studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the area studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region.
Top 7 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Area Studies in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trinity College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Trinity College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hartford, Connecticut. It awarded 3 masters’s area studies degrees in 2019-2020.
Trinity Bantams not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Area Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Trinity College are $17,830, but some majors have different tuition rates.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. UCONN is a large public school situated in Storrs, Connecticut. It awarded 3 masters’s area studies degrees in 2019-2020.
UCONN also took the #6 spot in our “Best Area Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Connecticut are $41,576, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s area studies degrees to 24 students in 2019-2020.
Yale also made our “Best Area Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at Yale University are $44,500, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Boston. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. UMass Boston is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 masters’s area studies degrees to qualified students.
UMass Boston also took the #7 spot in our “Best Area Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Massachusetts - Boston are $36,485, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #5 spot on the list. Harvard is a large school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 47 masters’s area studies degrees in 2019-2020.
Harvard also took the #1 spot in our “Best Area Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard University are $50,654, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
With a ranking of #6, Brandeis University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Brandeis is a medium-sized school located in Waltham, Massachusetts that handed out 5 masters’s area studies degrees in 2019-2020.
Brandeis also made our “Best Area Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at Brandeis University are $52,060, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
Brown University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Area Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region ranking. Brown University is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 masters’s area studies degrees to qualified students.
Brown also made our “Best Area Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Brown are $60,363, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
Footnotes
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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