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2023 Best Value Communication & Media Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,801 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,555 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Communication & Media Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, communication and media studies students earned 2,972 degrees and certificates from a North Carolina school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Communication & Media Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for communications students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Communication & Media Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Communication & Media Studies Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Communication & Media Studies

Our analysis found Appalachian State University to be the best value school for communication and media studies students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in North Carolina. Located in the town of Boone, Appalachian State is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Appalachian State are $8,007 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Appalachian State is ranked #5 for overall quality for communications in North Carolina.

Full Communication & Media Studies at Appalachian State University Report

#2

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend East Carolina University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Communication & Media Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public school with a very large student population.

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

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at East Carolina University

Best Value Communication & Media Studies Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 795
Virginia 2,064
Florida 3,020
Tennessee 1,000
Kentucky 787
South Carolina 796
Louisiana 815
Arkansas 457
Alabama 968
Mississippi 307
West Virginia 214

One of 5 majors within the area of study, communication and media studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Communications

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Relations & Advertising 21,099
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 17,669
Journalism 13,552
Communication & Journalism (Other) 1,128
Publishing 336

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 UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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