17 fee-waived PhD programs in Area Studies — US
17 programs for a PhD in Area Studies in the US that answer which programs in this group cost nothing to apply to. Every program here either offers an application-fee waiver or charges no application fee.
fee-waived Programs
Every program here either offers an application-fee waiver or charges no application fee.
- 1
Princeton University
- Grad School Navigator#4University rank
- QS#25University rank
- Times Higher Education#7Subject rank
- U.S. News#15Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Annual tuition
- $65,210
- Program duration
- 60 months
- 2
University of California, Berkeley
- Grad School Navigator#6University rank
- QS#17University rank
- Times Higher Education#6Subject rank
- U.S. News#11Subject rank
- Annual tuition
- $13,140
- Program duration
- 84 months
- 3
Yale University
- Grad School Navigator#8University rank
- QS#21University rank
- Times Higher Education#9Subject rank
- U.S. News#7Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Annual tuition
- $50,900
- Program duration
- 72 months
- 4
University of Pennsylvania
- Grad School Navigator#10University rank
- QS#15University rank
- Times Higher Education#14Subject rank
- U.S. News#17Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 8
- Program duration
- 60 months
- 5
Cornell University
- Grad School Navigator#13University rank
- QS#16University rank
- Times Higher Education#29Subject rank
- U.S. News#43Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Jan 10
- Program duration
- 72 months
- 6
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Grad School Navigator#19University rank
- QS#45University rank
- Times Higher Education#21Subject rank
- U.S. News#18Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 1
- Annual tuition
- $39,864
- Program duration
- 84 months
- 7
Northwestern University
- Grad School Navigator#23University rank
- QS#42University rank
- Times Higher Education101–125Subject rank
- U.S. News#46Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Annual tuition
- $56,067
- Program duration
- 60 months
- 8
The University of Texas at Austin
- Grad School Navigator#31University rank
- QS#68University rank
- Times Higher Education#43Subject rank
- U.S. News#21Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 1
- Annual tuition
- $17,348
- 9
University of California, Berkeley
- Grad School Navigator#6University rank
- QS#17University rank
- Times Higher Education#6Subject rank
- U.S. News#11Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 1
- Annual tuition
- $40,154
- Program duration
- 60 months
- 10
University of Pennsylvania
- Grad School Navigator#10University rank
- QS#15University rank
- Times Higher Education#14Subject rank
- U.S. News#17Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 8 +1
- Program duration
- 72 months
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