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2023 Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$9,809 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$74,199 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Marketing Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 147 degrees and certificates were awarded to marketing students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #41 most popular major in the state.

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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in North Carolina to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for marketing 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. 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 Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Check out the marketing 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 Marketing

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Our 2023 rankings named East Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Greenville, ECU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means North Carolina State University is a great value for marketing students working on their graduate certificate. NC State is a very large public school located in the city of Raleigh.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at NC State are $11,703 a year. The average amount in student loans that marketing majors at NC State take out while working on their Graduate Certificate is $16,366.

NC State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list.

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#3

Gardner - Webb University

Boiling Springs, NC

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Gardner - Webb University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value marketing schools in North Carolina. Gardner - Webb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the distant town of Boiling Springs.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Gardner - Webb are $10,130 per year.

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Best Value Marketing Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 64
Florida 420
Georgia 59
Tennessee 75
Kentucky 0
Louisiana 0
Alabama 143
South Carolina 1
Mississippi 0
Arkansas 0

Marketing 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 3 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 Nick Youngson.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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