2022 Best Value International Relations Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

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In 2019-2020, 13,616 people earned their degree in international relations, making the major the 54th most popular in the United States.

Across Connecticut, there were 152 international relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 international relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,793 and $40,407 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value International Relations Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in international relations. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality international relations programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the international relations program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value International Relations Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International Relations Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for International Relations in Connecticut

#1

University of Bridgeport

Bridgeport, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$21,686 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Bridgeport. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value International Relations Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut. University of Bridgeport is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It awarded 18 masters’s international relations degrees in 2019-2020.

UBridgeport did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best International Relations Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UBridgeport are $21,686.

Read more about International Relations at University of Bridgeport

#2

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$44,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value International Relations Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Yale University landed the #2 spot on the list. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s international relations degrees to 23 students in 2019-2020.

Yale also made our “Best International Relations Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Yale are $44,500, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about International Relations at Yale University

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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