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2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

8 Colleges
$12,343 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,635 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, business administration and management students earned 6,169 degrees and certificates from a Tennessee school, making the subject the 2nd in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Tennessee ranking. This report analyzed 8 schools in Tennessee to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for business administration students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Business Administration & Management

Our analysis found Tennessee Technological University to be the best value school for business administration and management students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Tennessee. Tennessee Tech University is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Cookeville.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Tennessee Tech University are $11,762 per year.

Tennessee Tech University also made our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Tennessee list, coming in at #3.

Full Business Administration & Management at Tennessee Technological University Report

#2

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Memphis. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Tennessee list. Located in the city of Memphis, UofM is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UofM are $10,908 a year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Tennessee list. UT Chattanooga is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Chattanooga.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UT Chattanooga are $10,474 a year.

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#4

Lipscomb University

Nashville, TN

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Lipscomb University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business administration and management schools in Tennessee. Lipscomb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Nashville.

Lipscomb graduate students pay an average of $17,100 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Lipscomb did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Tennessee list.

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#5

Austin Peay State University

Clarksville, TN

Out of the 8 schools in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Austin Peay State University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Austin Peay State University is a medium-sized public school located in the midsize city of Clarksville.

Austin Peay State University graduate students pay an average of $9,841 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#6

Tennessee State University

Nashville, TN

Tennessee State University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate business administration and management programs. Tennessee State University is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Nashville.

Tennessee State University graduate students pay an average of $10,732 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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DeVry University - Tennessee landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate business administration and management programs. DeVry University - Tennessee is a small private for-profit school located in the large city of Nashville.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at DeVry University - Tennessee are $17,552 a year.

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Strayer University - Tennessee came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Tennessee ranking. Strayer University - Tennessee is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Memphis.

Strayer University - Tennessee graduate students pay an average of $15,135 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Business Administration & Management Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 7,852
Virginia 11,308
North Carolina 10,472
Florida 18,071
Kentucky 2,692
South Carolina 4,017
Louisiana 5,195
Arkansas 2,031
Alabama 7,031
Mississippi 2,589
West Virginia 4,631

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

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 8 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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