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2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

53 Colleges
$19,595 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,635 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 416,590 business administration and management students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #2 most popular in the country.

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.

The Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 53 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for business administration 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 Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for business administration majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Top 10 Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools

#1

University of Scranton

Scranton, PA

Our analysis found University of Scranton to be the best value school for business administration and management students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the small city of Scranton, University of Scranton is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Scranton are $11,630 per year.

University of Scranton also claimed a spot on our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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#2

Messiah University

Mechanicsburg, PA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Messiah University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Messiah is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Mechanicsburg.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Messiah are $13,050 a year.

Read full report on Business Administration & Management at Messiah University

#3

Hood College

Frederick, MD

Out of the 53 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Hood College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Frederick, Hood is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Hood are $9,080 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Hood also did well on our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Business Administration & Management at Hood College

Out of the 53 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland Global Campus landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Adelphi, UMGC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

UMGC graduate students pay an average of $12,132 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Thomas Edison State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. TESU is a moderately-sized public school located in the small city of Trenton.

TESU graduate students pay an average of $12,024 in tuition and fees each year.

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With a ranking of #6, West Chester University of Pennsylvania did quite well on this year’s best value schools for business administration and management students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large suburb of West Chester, WCUPA is a public school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WCUPA are $16,758 a year.

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#7

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ

With a ranking of #7, Montclair State University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for business administration and management students working on their graduate certificate. Montclair State is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Montclair.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Montclair State are $13,519 per year.

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#8

Mount St Mary's University

Emmitsburg, MD

With a ranking of #8, Mount St Mary’s University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for business administration and management students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the fringe town of Emmitsburg, The Mount is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The Mount graduate students pay an average of $13,676 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Business Administration & Management at Mount St Mary’s University

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business administration and management students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the town of Shippensburg, Ship is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

Ship graduate students pay an average of $16,830 in tuition and fees each year.

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#10

Villanova University

Villanova, PA

Villanova University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate business administration and management programs. Villanova is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Villanova.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Villanova are $21,199 a year.

Villanova did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.

Read full report on Business Administration & Management at Villanova University

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges by State

Explore the best business administration and management colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 10,541
New York 20,678
Maryland 6,849
New Jersey 9,288
District of Columbia 2,563
Delaware 1,282

One of 21 majors within the area of study, business administration and management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major Annual Graduates
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 26 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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