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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$9,083 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$61,403 Avg Salary

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

Business, Management & Marketing is one of the most popular subjects to study in Arkansas. With 5,320 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 2nd out of all the majors we track 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.

The Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Arkansas to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for business, management and 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.

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

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

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

#1

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR

Our 2023 rankings named University of Arkansas the best value school in Arkansas for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Fayetteville, UARK is a public college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UARK are $9,018 per year.

UARK did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas list.

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Out of the 5 schools in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Arkansas landed the # 2 spot on the list. UCA is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Conway.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UCA are $6,773 a year.

UCA did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas list.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Southern Arkansas University Main Campus helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in Arkansas. Southern Arkansas University Main Campus is a small public school located in the town of Magnolia.

Southern Arkansas University Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $6,894 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Arkansas at Little Rock helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in Arkansas. UA Little Rock is a medium-sized public school located in the midsize city of Little Rock.

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

UA Little Rock not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas list.

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#5

Strayer University - Arkansas

Little Rock, AR

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Strayer University - Arkansas. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas list. Located in the midsize city of Little Rock, Strayer University - Arkansas is a private for-profit college with a small student population.

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

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Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
North Carolina 19,372
West Virginia 7,145
South Carolina 10,000
Florida 38,945
Virginia 20,162
Mississippi 6,031
Tennessee 10,909
Louisiana 10,068
Alabama 13,789
Kentucky 8,045
Georgia 19,137

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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