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Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona

2023 Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,666 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,555 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 3,531 degrees and certificates were awarded to communication and journalism students who went to a Arizona college or university. This makes it the #11 most popular major 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.

The Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Arizona to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for communication and journalism students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

Best Arizona Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Communication & Journalism

Our 2023 rankings named Arizona State University - Skysong the best value school in Arizona for communication and journalism students working on their graduate certificate. ASU - Skysong is a very large public school located in the city of Scottsdale.

ASU - Skysong graduate students pay an average of $9,982 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, ASU - Skysong is ranked #1 for overall quality for communication and journalism in Arizona.

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#2

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public school with a fairly large student population.

University of Arizona graduate students pay an average of $13,460 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

University of Arizona did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list.

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Out of the 3 schools in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at NAU are $11,555 a year.

NAU also took the #5 spot in our Best Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona rankings.

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Best Value Communication & Journalism Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Communication & Journalism Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 8,480
New Mexico 199
Oklahoma 1,106

Communication & Journalism Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies 66,787
Public Relations & Advertising 21,099
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 17,669
Journalism 13,552
Communication & Journalism (Other) 1,128
Publishing 336

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 327,871
Social Sciences 205,984
Psychology 195,678
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences 55,820
History 32,731

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 Josh Hallett.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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