2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best General Education Graduate Certificate School for You
General Education is the #15 most popular major in Maryland with 1,286 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
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.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Maryland to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for education 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 Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Education
Our analysis found Goucher College to be the best value school for general education students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Maryland. Goucher is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Goucher are $9,765 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Frostburg State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list. Located in the small suburb of Frostburg, Frostburg State is a public school with a small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Frostburg State are $10,788 a year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Notre Dame of Maryland University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list. NDMU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.
NDMU graduate students pay an average of $13,711 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
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State | Degrees Awarded |
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Pennsylvania | 1,014 |
New York | 604 |
New Jersey | 702 |
District of Columbia | 79 |
Delaware | 134 |
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Majors Related to Education
One of 14 majors within the area of study, general education has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Teacher Education Grade Specific | 110,226 |
Educational Administration | 46,469 |
Teacher Education Subject Specific | 43,297 |
Special Education | 36,792 |
Curriculum & Instruction | 19,832 |
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).
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