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2023 Best Value Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$21,192 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,688 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate School for You

With 206 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, instructional media design is the #34 most popular major in Maryland.

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 Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Maryland to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for instructional media 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 Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

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

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Instructional Media Design

#1

McDaniel College

Westminster, MD

Our 2023 rankings named McDaniel College the best value school in Maryland for instructional media design students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of Westminster, McDaniel is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at McDaniel are $9,568 a year.

McDaniel also made our Best Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list, coming in at #4.

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#2

Towson University

Towson, MD

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Towson University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value instructional media design schools in Maryland. Located in the small city of Towson, Towson is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Towson are $11,034 a year.

Full Instructional Media Design at Towson University Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Maryland Global Campus helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value instructional media design schools in Maryland. Located in the large suburb of Adelphi, UMGC is a public school with a very large student population.

UMGC graduate students pay an average of $9,342 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 5 schools in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - Baltimore County landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the suburb of Baltimore, UMBC is a public school with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMBC are $14,814 per year.

Full Instructional Media Design at University of Maryland - Baltimore County Report

#5

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Johns Hopkins University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value instructional media design schools in Maryland. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Johns Hopkins are $61,202 a year.

Johns Hopkins did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list.

Full Instructional Media Design at Johns Hopkins University Report

Best Value Instructional Media Design Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Instructional Media Design Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 414
Pennsylvania 423
New Jersey 52
District of Columbia 24
Delaware 41

One of 14 majors within the area of study, instructional media design has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Educational Administration 45,458
Teacher Education Grade Specific 34,451
Special Education 25,158
General Education 21,189
Teacher Education Subject Specific 20,616

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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 Antanana.

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