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2023 Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$44,323 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,555 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 858 degrees and certificates were awarded to communication and journalism students who went to a California college or university. This makes it the #18 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for communication and journalism 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 Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in California

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

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Communication & Journalism

#1

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Our analysis found University of San Francisco to be the best value school for communication and journalism students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in California. Located in the city of San Francisco, USFCA is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

USFCA graduate students pay an average of $27,250 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism at University of San Francisco

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Southern California is a great value for communication and journalism students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at USC are $61,396 a year.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism at University of Southern California

Best Value Communication & Journalism Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Communication & Journalism Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 243
Oregon 115
Nevada 30
Hawaii 26
Alaska 4

Communication & Journalism Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies 5,059
Public Relations & Advertising 2,828
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 2,562
Journalism 1,238
Communication & Journalism (Other) 341
Publishing 214

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Psychology 42,013
Social Sciences 22,292
Library Science 5,929
History 4,391

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 Josh Hallett.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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