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2023 Best Value International Relations & Security Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$63,936 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$56,371 Avg Salary

Finding the Best International Relations & National Security Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 389 degrees and certificates were awarded to international relations and national security students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #79 most popular major in the state.

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.

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

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value International Relations & National Security Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best International Relations & National Security Graduate Certificate School

#1

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Our 2023 rankings named University of Chicago the best value school in Illinois for international relations and national security students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Chicago, UChicago is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UChicago are $63,936 a year.

UChicago also made our Best International Relations & Security Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #2.

Read full report on International Relations & National Security at University of Chicago

Best Value International Relations & National Security Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value International Relations & National Security Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 213
Ohio 446
Indiana 201
Wisconsin 76

One of 12 majors within the area of study, international relations and national security has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Political Science & Government 49,282
Economics 49,055
Sociology 38,475
General Social Sciences 18,997
Anthropology 11,415

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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