Best International Relations & National Security Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southeast Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southeast Region that made our Best International Relations & National Security Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great International Relations & National Security School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of international relations & national security for getting your doctor'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 take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 international relations & national security students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other international relations & national security students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 easy is it for international relations & national security to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized international relations & national security related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for international relations & national security students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southeast Region

Sad to say, we do not have sufficient info to produce a ranking of the quality schools for international relations & national security in the Southeast Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southeast Region that both offer international relations & national security and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other International Relations & National Security rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for International Relations & National Security ranking.

Best International Relations & National Security Colleges by State

Explore the best international relations & national security schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	14
Virginia	127	11
Georgia	126	1
West Virginia	49	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to International Relations

International Relations & National Security is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

International Relations Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
International Relations	24
Other International Relations & National Security Studies	6

Most Popular Majors Related to International Relations

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	214
Political Science & Government	110
Sociology	106
Anthropology	79
Geography & Cartography	58
Urban Studies	14
Other Social Sciences	4
Archeology	1

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to RepubFan12. More about our data sources and methodologies.