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2023 Best Value Business & Commerce Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$9,870 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$82,797 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Business/Commerce Graduate Certificate School for You

General Business/Commerce is the #31 most popular major in the country with 9,137 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Business & Commerce Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for general business 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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value General Business/Commerce Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Business/Commerce Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Southeast Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Business & Commerce

Our analysis found American Public University System to be the best value school for general business/commerce students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southeast Region . American Military University is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the town of Charles Town.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at American Military University are $7,050 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, American Military University also is in the top 10% of our Best Business & Commerce Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Louisiana Tech University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Business & Commerce Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the distant town of Ruston, Louisiana Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Louisiana Tech graduate students pay an average of $12,690 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on General Business/Commerce at Louisiana Tech University

Best General Business/Commerce Colleges by State

Explore the best general business/commerce schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 160
Florida 559
Georgia 373
Tennessee 176
Kentucky 1,422
Louisiana 138
Alabama 35
South Carolina 123
Arkansas 30
West Virginia 275

One of 20 majors within the area of study, general business/commerce has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to General Business

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
Finance & Financial Management 5,784

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 U.S. Consulate General Munich.

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