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2023 Best Value General Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$59,141 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 19 degrees and certificates were awarded to general engineering students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #143 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Check out the engineering graduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best General Engineering Graduate Certificate School

#1

Duke University

Durham, NC

Our 2023 rankings named Duke University the best value school in North Carolina for general engineering students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke 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 Duke are $59,141 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Duke is ranked #1 for overall quality for engineering in North Carolina.

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Best Value General Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value General Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 117
Florida 13
Georgia 33
Tennessee 57
Louisiana 77
Alabama 222
Mississippi 47
Arkansas 117
West Virginia 57

General Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Rémi Kaupp.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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