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2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$30,205 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,635 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate School for You

Business Administration & Management is the most popular major in District of Columbia with 2,104 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in District of Columbia to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for business administration students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia

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

Best District of Columbia Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Business Administration & Management

Our 2023 rankings named Strayer University - Global Region the best value school in District of Columbia for business administration and management students working on their graduate certificate. Strayer University - Global Region is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the large city of Washington.

Strayer University - Global Region graduate students pay an average of $15,135 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Business Administration & Management at Strayer University - Global Region

Out of the 4 schools in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

GWU graduate students pay an average of $32,904 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

GWU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia list.

Read full report on Business Administration & Management at George Washington University

#3

American University

Washington, DC

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means American University is a great value for business administration and management students working on their graduate certificate. The American University is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Washington.

The American University graduate students pay an average of $38,456 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

The American University also took the #3 spot in our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia rankings.

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#4

Howard University

Washington, DC

Out of the 4 schools in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Washington, Howard is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

Howard graduate students pay an average of $34,326 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Howard also took the #5 spot in our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia rankings.

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Best Value Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 6,358
Pennsylvania 4,564
Maryland 3,310
New Jersey 2,593
Delaware 823

Business Administration & Management is one of 20 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137
Finance & Financial Management 5,784

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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