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2023 Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

27 Colleges
$29,556 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$14,657 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Biology Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 107,165 general biology students received their degrees and certificates, making the major the #5 most popular in the country.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 27 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for biology students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Top 10 Best General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools

Our analysis found University of Nebraska at Omaha to be the best value school for general biology students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. UNOMAHA is a large public school located in the city of Omaha.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNOMAHA are $16,374 a year.

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#2

Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, KY

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Kentucky University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the small city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public school with a large student population.

WKU graduate students pay an average of $18,340 in tuition and fees each year.

Full General Biology at Western Kentucky University Report

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means William Paterson University of New Jersey is a great value for general biology students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large suburb of Wayne, William Paterson University is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

William Paterson University graduate students pay an average of $21,748 in tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 27 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis landed the # 4 spot on the list. IUPUI is a very large public school located in the city of Indianapolis.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at IUPUI are $26,529 a year.

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#5

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Temple University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general biology schools in the United States. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Temple are $24,812 a year.

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate general biology programs. UNC Charlotte is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNC Charlotte are $21,147 a year.

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The University of Texas at El Paso came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. UTEP is a very large public school located in the city of El Paso.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UTEP are $16,621 per year.

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North Carolina State University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools list. NC State is a very large public school located in the city of Raleigh.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at NC State are $29,690 per year.

NC State also claimed a spot on our Best General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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#9

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

With a ranking of #9, Harvard University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for general biology students working on their graduate certificate. Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Cambridge.

Harvard graduate students pay an average of $52,170 in tuition and fees each year.

Harvard also claimed a spot on our Best General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.

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#10

Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, FL

Florida Atlantic University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for general biology students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #10 on the list. FAU is a very large public school located in the city of Boca Raton.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at FAU are $18,482 per year.

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General Biology by Region

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Rocky Mountains
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Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

General Biology is one of 14 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 14,535
Neurobiology & Neurosciences 11,615
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 8,813
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 7,247
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences 6,206

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • 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.

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