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2023 Best Value Natural Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$29,546 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Natural Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

Natural Sciences is the #213 most popular major in the country with 2,214 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Natural Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools ranking.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Natural Sciences Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Natural Sciences Graduate Certificate School

Our analysis found Virginia Commonwealth University to be the best value school for natural sciences students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. VCU is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Richmond.

VCU graduate students pay an average of $29,546 in tuition and fees each year. After completing their Graduate Certificate, natural sciences graduates from VCU carry an average student debtload of $33,230.

Full Natural Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University Report

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New England
Rocky Mountains
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Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Natural Sciences is one of 44 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Natural Sciences

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 34,975
Biological & Physical Science 30,075
Interdisciplinary Studies 9,074
International Studies 7,368
Nutrition Science 5,330

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Agsftw.

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