2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other International Relations & National Security Studies Major in the Southwest Region

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Other International Relations & National Security Studies is the 593rd most popular major in the country with 530 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 117 other international relations and national security studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 117 other international relations and national security studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other International Relations & National Security Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other international relations and national security studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other international relations and national security studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other International Relations & National Security Studies Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree other international relations & national security studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other International Relations & National Security Studies in the Southwest Region

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Arizona State University - Skysong
Scottsdale, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other International Relations & National Security Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the #1 spot on the list. ASU - Skysong is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 72 masters’s other international relations and national security studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other International Relations & National Security Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other international relations and national security studies degrees to 45 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other International Relations & National Security Studies

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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