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2023 Best Value General Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$45,565 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,151 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Psychology Graduate Certificate School for You

With 141,695 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general psychology is the #4 most popular major 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value General Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for psychology students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value General Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for psychology majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Psychology

Our 2023 rankings named Columbia University in the City of New York the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for general psychology students working on their graduate certificate. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Columbia also did well on our Best General Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full General Psychology at Columbia University in the City of New York Report

#2

New York University

New York, NY

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means New York University is a great value for general psychology students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at NYU are $38,206 a year.

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Best General Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best general psychology colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 4,843
New York 10,965
Maryland 2,523
New Jersey 3,346
District of Columbia 437
Delaware 191

One of 3 majors within the area of study, general psychology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Psychology

Related Major Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 33,758
Child Development & Psychology 17,542
Other Psychology 2,683

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 BruceBlaus.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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