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2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Ohio

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$49,398 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

General Social Sciences is the #170 most popular major in Ohio with 85 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. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Ohio to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Ohio to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for social sciences 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.

2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Ohio

Check out the social sciences graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Ohio Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Social Sciences

Our analysis found Kent State University at Kent to be the best value school for general social sciences students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Ohio. Kent State is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Kent.

Kent State graduate students pay an average of $11,766 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on General Social Sciences at Kent State University at Kent

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Case Western Reserve University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general social sciences schools in Ohio. Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cleveland.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Case Western are $49,398 per year.

Case Western did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Ohio list.

Full General Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University Report

Best Value General Social Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value General Social Sciences Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 230
Illinois 196
Indiana 8
Wisconsin 42

One of 12 majors within the area of study, general social sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Political Science & Government 49,282
Economics 49,055
Sociology 38,475
International Relations & National Security 14,306
Anthropology 11,415

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 Manfred Werner (Tsui).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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