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2023 Best Value Area Studies Schools in Michigan

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$22,848 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$40,946 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Area Studies School for You

With 124 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, area studies is the #134 most popular major in Michigan.

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.

The Best Value Area Studies Schools in Michigan ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Michigan to see which ones offered the best value 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 Schools in Michigan

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Area Studies Colleges.

Best Michigan Schools for Affordable Quality in Area Studies

$17,193 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Michigan - Ann Arbor the best value school in Michigan for area studies students. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.

U-M undergraduate students pay an average of $17,193 in in-state tuition and fees each year. On average, area studies graduates from U-M take out $17,256 in student loans while working on their degree.

U-M not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Area Studies Schools in Michigan list.

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$28,502 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Siena Heights University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Area Studies Schools in Michigan list. Located in the town of Adrian, Siena Heights University is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Siena Heights University are $28,502 a year.

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Best Value Area Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Ohio 182
Illinois 148
Indiana 101
Wisconsin 66

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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