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2023 Best Value Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

10 Colleges
$21,137 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,501 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate School for You

Teacher Education Grade Specific is the #11 most popular major in California with 2,635 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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 Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 10 schools in California to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for grade specific ed 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 Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California

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

Top 10 Best Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools

Our analysis found University of California - Irvine to be the best value school for teacher education grade specific students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in California. UC Irvine is a fairly large public school located in the city of Irvine.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UC Irvine are $13,356 a year.

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#2

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means San Francisco State University is a great value for teacher education grade specific students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of San Francisco, SFSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SFSU are $8,738 a year.

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#3

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Diego State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. Located in the large city of San Diego, SDSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SDSU are $9,570 a year.

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#4

California Lutheran University

Thousand Oaks, CA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California Lutheran University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. Located in the medium-sized city of Thousand Oaks, CLU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

CLU graduate students pay an average of $20,600 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Claremont Graduate University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. Located in the large suburb of Claremont, Claremont Graduate University is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Claremont Graduate University graduate students pay an average of $36,380 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Claremont Graduate University did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California list.

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Saint Mary’s College of California landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate teacher education grade specific programs. SMC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Moraga.

SMC graduate students pay an average of $33,357 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, SMC also is in the top 20% of our Best Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking.

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#7

Holy Names University

Oakland, CA

Holy Names University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Teacher Education Grade Specific Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. Located in the large city of Oakland, HNU is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

HNU graduate students pay an average of $18,590 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Grade Specific Ed majors at HNU take out an average of $18,972 in student loans while working on their Graduate Certificate.

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#8

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

With a ranking of #8, University of San Francisco did quite well on this year’s best value schools for teacher education grade specific students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of San Francisco, USFCA is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at USFCA are $27,250 per year.

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#9

Mills College

Oakland, CA

With a ranking of #9, Mills College did quite well on this year’s best value schools for teacher education grade specific students working on their graduate certificate. Mills is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Oakland.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Mills are $36,443 a year.

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With a ranking of #10, Antioch University - Santa Barbara did quite well on this year’s best value schools for teacher education grade specific students working on their graduate certificate. Antioch University - Santa Barbara is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Santa Barbara.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Antioch University - Santa Barbara are $19,303 per year.

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Best Value Teacher Education Grade Specific Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Teacher Education Grade Specific Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 1,210
Oregon 1,528
Nevada 94
Hawaii 135
Alaska 84

Teacher Education Grade Specific is one of 14 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Grade Specific Ed

Related Major Annual Graduates
Educational Administration 45,458
Special Education 25,158
General Education 21,189
Teacher Education Subject Specific 20,616
Curriculum & Instruction 19,784

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 10 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 Vgrigas.

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