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2023 Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$47,939 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

Area Studies is the #96 most popular major in New York with 684 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in New York to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in New York to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for area studies 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. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

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

Best New York Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Area Studies

Our 2023 rankings named Columbia University in the City of New York the best value school in New York for area studies students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Columbia graduate students pay an average of $52,924 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Columbia also took the #3 spot in our Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in New York rankings.

Read full report on Area Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York

#2

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Syracuse University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list. Syracuse is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Syracuse.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Syracuse are $42,954 a year.

Syracuse excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Area Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list.

Read full report on Area Studies at Syracuse University

Best Value Area Studies Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 245
Maryland 141
New Jersey 75
District of Columbia 206
Delaware 13

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

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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