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Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

2023 Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$9,708 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$14,657 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Biology Graduate Certificate School for You

General Biology is one of the most popular subjects to study in North Carolina. With 3,666 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 5th out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for biology students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Biology

Our analysis found University of North Carolina at Charlotte to be the best value school for general biology students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in North Carolina. UNC Charlotte is a very large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UNC Charlotte are $7,713 a year.

UNC Charlotte not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means North Carolina State University is a great value for general biology students working on their graduate certificate. NC State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at NC State are $11,703 a year.

NC State also took the #2 spot in our Best General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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Best Value General Biology Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value General Biology Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 3,494
Virginia 3,513
Florida 6,451
Tennessee 1,542
Kentucky 1,146
South Carolina 1,776
Louisiana 1,529
Arkansas 891
Alabama 1,940
Mississippi 1,380
West Virginia 526

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 2 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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