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Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota

2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$9,385 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,664 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Education Graduate Certificate School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, general education was ranked 9th in Minnesota. In fact, 2,028 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Minnesota 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.

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 Minnesota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Education

Our 2023 rankings named Winona State University the best value school in Minnesota for general education students working on their graduate certificate. Winona State is a moderately-sized public school located in the distant town of Winona.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Winona State are $8,756 per year.

Winona State also made our Best General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota list, coming in at #5.

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Out of the 4 schools in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the # 2 spot on the list. Minnesota State Mankato is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Mankato.

Minnesota State Mankato graduate students pay an average of $9,308 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Minnesota State Mankato also took the #2 spot in our Best General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota rankings.

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Capella University

Minneapolis, MN

Out of the 4 schools in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Capella University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, Capella University is a private for-profit college with a very large student population.

Capella University graduate students pay an average of $14,784 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value General Education Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value General Education Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 493
Kansas 373
Iowa 226
Nebraska 59
North Dakota 24
South Dakota 88

One of 14 majors within the area of study, general education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
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 4 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 KOKUYO.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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