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Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

2023 Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$9,809 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$74,199 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Marketing Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 1,241 degrees and certificates were awarded to marketing students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #21 most popular major 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in North Carolina to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for marketing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Marketing

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Our 2023 rankings named East Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at ECU are $7,594 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list. NC State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NC State are $11,703 per year. On average, marketing graduates from NC State take out $16,366 in student loans while working on their Graduate Certificate.

NC State also made our Best Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list, coming in at #2.

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#3

Gardner - Webb University

Boiling Springs, NC

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Gardner - Webb University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value marketing schools in North Carolina. Gardner - Webb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Boiling Springs.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Gardner - Webb are $10,130 a year.

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Best Value Marketing Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 1,868
Virginia 971
Florida 3,578
Tennessee 898
Kentucky 721
South Carolina 984
Louisiana 832
Arkansas 515
Alabama 1,453
Mississippi 652
West Virginia 247

One of 21 majors within the area of study, marketing has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 3 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.

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