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2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$25,248 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,664 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Education Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 861 degrees and certificates were awarded to general education students who went to a Pennsylvania college or university. This makes it the #17 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.

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 Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Pennsylvania 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.

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 General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Colleges.

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

#1

Messiah University

Mechanicsburg, PA

Our 2023 rankings named Messiah University the best value school in Pennsylvania for general education students working on their graduate certificate. Messiah is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Mechanicsburg.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Messiah are $13,050 a year.

Full General Education at Messiah University Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the city of Pittsburgh.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Pitt are $25,248 a year. On average, education graduates from Pitt take out $25,278 in student loans while working on their Graduate Certificate.

Read full report on General Education at University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

Best Value General Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 199
Maryland 1,145
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.

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 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 KOKUYO.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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