2023 Best Value International Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best International Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

International Studies is the #102 most popular major in the country with 7,368 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value International Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

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

The following school tops our list of the Best Value International Studies Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best International Studies Graduate Certificate School

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

3 Graduate Certificates

#19 in Quality in the Southwest Region

$33,644 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Arizona to be the best value school for international studies students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southwest Region . University of Arizona is a very large public school located in the city of Tucson.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Arizona are $33,644 a year.

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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).
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