2025 Best Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #195 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for peace studies & conflict resolution students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 80 bachelor's degrees in peace studies & conflict resolution during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to peace studies & conflict resolution students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of peace studies & conflict resolution students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt peace studies & conflict resolution students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized peace studies & conflict resolution related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for peace studies & conflict resolution students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution in the Great Lakes Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for peace studies & conflict resolution students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Conflict Resolution

1

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

12 Annual Graduates

University of Notre Dame is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in peace studies & conflict resolution. Notre Dame is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Notre Dame.More information about a bachelor’s in peace studies & conflict resolution from University of Notre Dame

2

DePaul University
Chicago, IL

16 Annual Graduates

$32,523 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in peace studies & conflict resolution has to look into DePaul University. DePaul is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the conflict resolution program report average early career wages of $32,523.

More information about a bachelor’s in peace studies & conflict resolution from DePaul University

Best Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Colleges by State

Explore the best peace studies & conflict resolution schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	252	31
Illinois	241	22
Indiana	235	32
Wisconsin	213	9

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Rankings in Majors Related to Conflict Resolution

Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution is one of 51 different types of Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies programs to choose from.

Conflict Resolution Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution	80

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	1,306
International Studies	718
Data Science	631
Data Analytics	361
Sustainability Science	343
Interdisciplinary Studies	327
Mathematics & Computer Science	232
Cognitive Science	228
Nutrition Science	200
Biological & Physical Science	196

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.