2023 Best Value Literature Graduate Certificate Schools
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Literature Graduate Certificate School for You
In 2020-2021, 683 people earned a degree or certificate in literature, making the major the #266 most popular in the United States.
With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Literature Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for literature students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Literature
Our 2023 rankings named Stony Brook University the best value school in the United States for literature students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public college with a fairly large student population.
SUNY Stony Brook graduate students pay an average of $25,628 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Literature Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the large city of Indianapolis, IUPUI is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at IUPUI are $26,529 per year.
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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Harvard University is a great value for literature students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
Harvard graduate students pay an average of $52,170 in tuition and fees each year.
Harvard excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Literature Graduate Certificate Schools list.
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Literature Related Majors for Literature
One of 3 majors within the area of study, literature has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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| General English Literature | 40,481 |
| Writing Studies | 12,529 |
| English Literature (Other) | 942 |
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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.