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2023 Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$40,998 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$74,199 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Marketing Graduate Certificate School for You

With 1,328 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, marketing is the #77 most popular major in California.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

The Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for marketing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Check out the marketing graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Marketing

#1

California Lutheran University

Thousand Oaks, CA

Our 2023 rankings named California Lutheran University the best value school in California for marketing students working on their graduate certificate. CLU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Thousand Oaks.

CLU graduate students pay an average of $20,600 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Marketing at California Lutheran University

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Los Angeles.

USC graduate students pay an average of $61,396 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Marketing at University of Southern California

Best Value Marketing Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Marketing Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 1,109
Oregon 477
Nevada 311
Hawaii 128
Alaska 19

Marketing is one of 21 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Youngson.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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