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2023 Best Value Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$9,649 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$101,072 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate School for You

Finance & Financial Management is the #78 most popular major in North Carolina with 70 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. 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for finance 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 Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

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

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Finance & Financial Management

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Our 2023 rankings named East Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for finance and financial management students working on their graduate certificate. ECU is a very large public school located in the city of Greenville.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at ECU are $7,594 a year.

Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at East Carolina University

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the large city of Raleigh, NC State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NC State are $11,703 per year. On average, finance graduates from NC State take out $19,257 in student loans while working on their Graduate Certificate.

NC State also took the #2 spot in our Best Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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Best Value Finance & Financial Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Finance & Financial Management Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 63
Florida 356
Georgia 3
Tennessee 18
Kentucky 0
Louisiana 182
Alabama 49
South Carolina 1
Mississippi 14
Arkansas 10
West Virginia 23

Finance & Financial Management is one of 20 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137

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 Dave Dugdale.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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