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2023 Best Value Area Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$22,703 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$31,493 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Area Studies Bachelor's Degree School for You

Area Studies is the #121 most popular major in Pennsylvania with 245 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, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Area Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for area studies students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Area Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Area Studies Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Area Studies

Our 2023 rankings named Millersville University of Pennsylvania the best value school in Pennsylvania for area studies students working on their bachelor’s degree. Millersville is a medium-sized public school located in the large suburb of Millersville.

Millersville undergraduate students pay an average of $12,256 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Area Studies majors at Millersville take out an average of $21,453 in student loans while working on their Bachelor's Degree.

Read full report on Area Studies at Millersville University of Pennsylvania

#2

La Salle University

Philadelphia, PA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend La Salle University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Area Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the city of Philadelphia, La Salle is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at La Salle are $33,150 per year.

Read full report on Area Studies at La Salle University

Best Value Area Studies Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Area Studies Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 684
Maryland 141
New Jersey 75
District of Columbia 206
Delaware 13

Area Studies is one of 2 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Area Studies

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ethnic Studies 9,231
Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other) 46

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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