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2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,421 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,664 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Education Graduate Certificate School for You

General Education is one of the most popular subjects to study in Maryland. With 1,145 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 3rd out of all the majors we track in the state.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Maryland to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for education 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 General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for education majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Education

#1

Goucher College

Baltimore, MD

Our analysis found Goucher College to be the best value school for general education students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Maryland. Goucher is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Goucher are $9,765 per year.

Full General Education at Goucher College Report

#2

Frostburg State University

Frostburg, MD

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Frostburg State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list. Located in the suburb of Frostburg, Frostburg State is a public school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Frostburg State are $10,788 per year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Notre Dame of Maryland University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general education schools in Maryland. NDMU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NDMU are $13,711 per year.

Read full report on General Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University

Best Value General Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value General Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 199
Pennsylvania 861
New Jersey 366
District of Columbia 25
Delaware 84

One of 14 majors within the area of study, general education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Education

Related Major Annual Graduates
Educational Administration 45,458
Teacher Education Grade Specific 34,451
Special Education 25,158
Teacher Education Subject Specific 20,616
Curriculum & Instruction 19,784

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 KOKUYO.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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