2024 Best Development Economics & International Development Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
80Master's Degrees
Development Economics & International Development is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #357 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of development economics & international development. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 80 master's degrees in development economics & international development during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Development Economics & International Development School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of development economics & international development for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on development economics & international development students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of development economics & international development students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized development economics & international development related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for development economics & international development students working on their master's degree.
The development economics and international development school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Development Economics & International Development Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
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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).