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2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

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Finding the Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

With 95 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general social sciences is the #99 most popular major in Alabama.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

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

Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alabama at Birmingham the best value school in Alabama for general social sciences students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham, UAB is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UAB are $8,100 a year.

UAB did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama list.

Read full report on General Social Sciences at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Best Value General Social Sciences Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value General Social Sciences Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 51
Virginia 1,592
North Carolina 114
Florida 606
Tennessee 269
Kentucky 52
South Carolina 64
Louisiana 59
Arkansas 16
Mississippi 55
West Virginia 14

General Social Sciences is one of 12 different types of programs to choose from.

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 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 Manfred Werner (Tsui).

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