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2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

5 Colleges
$13,392 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$61,403 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, business, management and marketing students earned 11,476 degrees and certificates from a Washington school, making the subject the 2nd in the state.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in Washington to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for business, management and 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 Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington

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

Best Washington Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Business, Management & Marketing

Our 2023 rankings named City University of Seattle the best value school in Washington for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. CityU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Seattle.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CityU are $11,812 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, CityU is ranked #5 for overall quality for business, management and marketing in Washington.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Washington State University is a great value for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the town of Pullman, Wazzu is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Wazzu are $13,740 a year.

Wazzu also took the #2 spot in our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington rankings.

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#3

Seattle University

Seattle, WA

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Seattle University is a great value for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Seattle U is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Seattle.

Seattle U graduate students pay an average of $14,310 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Seattle U also made our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington list, coming in at #4.

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Out of the 5 schools in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Washington University landed the # 4 spot on the list. CWU is a large public school located in the distant town of Ellensburg.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CWU are $12,127 a year.

Full Business, Management & Marketing at Central Washington University Report

Out of the 5 schools in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Martin’s University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Saint Martin's is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Lacey.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Saint Martin’s are $15,840 a year.

Full Business, Management & Marketing at Saint Martin’s University Report

Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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State Degrees Awarded
California 82,945
Oregon 5,629
Hawaii 1,878
Nevada 3,318
Alaska 621

Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382
Human Resource Management 28,787
Business Support & Assistant Services 19,119
Hospitality Management 17,689
Management Information Systems 13,680
Entrepreneurial Studies 11,319
International Business 9,101
Real Estate 6,547
General Sales & Marketing 5,923
Business/Managerial Economics 5,667
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing 5,191
Other Business, Management & Marketing 4,822
Construction Management 3,846
Insurance 1,809
Taxation 1,547
Business/Corporate Communications 1,029
Telecommunications Management 55

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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 Amit Savargaonkar.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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