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2023 Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$36,867 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$14,657 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Biology Graduate Certificate School for You

General Biology is the #33 most popular major in the country with 8,920 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for biology 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. 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.

2023 Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Biology

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Our analysis found Harvard University to be the best value school for general biology students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the New England Region . Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Harvard are $52,170 a year.

Harvard also made our Best General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list, coming in at #1.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. UMass Lowell is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Lowell.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMass Lowell are $26,990 per year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Central Connecticut State University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general biology schools in the New England Region . CCSU is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of New Britain.

CCSU graduate students pay an average of $26,072 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value General Biology Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. UCONN is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Storrs.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 a year.

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Best General Biology Colleges by State

Explore the best general biology schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 457
Connecticut 113
Rhode Island 2
New Hampshire 21
Maine 8
Vermont 10

General Biology is one of 14 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 3,221
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 2,488
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics 2,290
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 1,964
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other) 1,922

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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).

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