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2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

30 Colleges
$18,107 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$61,403 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate School for You

With 226,882 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, business, management and marketing is the #2 most popular major in the United States.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

The Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 30 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for business, management and 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 Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Check out the business, management and marketing graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Arizona State University - Skysong the best value school in the Southwest Region for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. ASU - Skysong is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Scottsdale.

ASU - Skysong graduate students pay an average of $9,982 in tuition and fees each year.

ASU - Skysong not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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#2

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, AZ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Grand Canyon University are $11,538 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Tempe, UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UOPX - Arizona are $16,153 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UOPX - Arizona is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of North Texas is a great value for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Denton, UNT is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNT are $15,600 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Houston - Downtown. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. UH Downtown is a large public school located in the city of Houston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UH Downtown are $15,991 per year.

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#6

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

With a ranking of #6, Texas Tech University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $17,698 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Texas Tech also did well on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Texas A&M University - College Station came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in the city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a very large student population.

Texas A&M College Station graduate students pay an average of $24,106 in tuition and fees each year.

Texas A&M College Station did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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Strayer University - Texas ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Austin, Strayer University - Texas is a private for-profit college with a small student population.

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

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#9

St. Mary's University

San Antonio, TX

With a ranking of #9, St. Mary’s University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. St. Mary's is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of San Antonio.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at St. Mary’s are $19,846 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, St. Mary’s is ranked #4 for overall quality for business, management and marketing in the Southwest Region .

Full Business, Management & Marketing at St. Mary’s University Report

#10

Angelo State University

San Angelo, TX

Angelo State University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate business, management and marketing programs. Angelo State is a large public school located in the city of San Angelo.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Angelo State are $14,590 per year.

Full Business, Management & Marketing at Angelo State University Report

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges by State

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State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 7,884
Texas 16,152
Oklahoma 1,823
New Mexico 514

Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

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
Finance & Financial Management 5,784
Marketing 4,011
Management Information Systems 2,766
International Business 2,007
Entrepreneurial Studies 1,823
Taxation 1,350
Hospitality Management 1,341
Real Estate 1,280
Other Business, Management & Marketing 1,073
General Sales & Marketing 537
Construction Management 466
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing 180
Business/Managerial Economics 162
Insurance 143
Business/Corporate Communications 117
Telecommunications Management 23

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 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 Amit Savargaonkar.

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