2023 Best Value Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You
With 61,791 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, engineering is the #4 most popular major in the United States.
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Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 16 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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.
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2023 Best Value Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for engineering majors pursuing a graduate certificate.
Top 10 Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools
Our analysis found Villanova University to be the best value school for engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Middle Atlantic Region . Villanova is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Villanova.
Villanova graduate students pay an average of $21,199 in tuition and fees each year.
Villanova also took the #5 spot in our Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region rankings.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at Lehigh University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Lehigh is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Bethlehem.
Lehigh graduate students pay an average of $27,130 in tuition and fees each year.
Lehigh excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.
Out of the 16 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public college with a very large student population.
UMCP graduate students pay an average of $35,755 in tuition and fees each year.
UMCP excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.
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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Maryland - Baltimore County helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the large suburb of Baltimore, UMBC is a public college with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMBC are $23,580 per year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UMBC also is in the top 20% of our Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at George Washington University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at GWU are $32,904 per year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, GWU also is in the top 15% of our Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.
Drexel University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Drexel are $37,074 per year.
With a ranking of #7, New Jersey Institute of Technology did quite well on this year’s best value schools for engineering students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Newark, NJIT is a public college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at NJIT are $34,760 a year.
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University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Pitt is a very large public school located in the city of Pittsburgh.
Pitt graduate students pay an average of $42,024 in tuition and fees each year.
Clarkson University landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate engineering programs. Located in the town of Potsdam, Clarkson is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Clarkson graduate students pay an average of $36,472 in tuition and fees each year.
Stevens Institute of Technology came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Located in the large suburb of Hoboken, Stevens is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Stevens are $39,556 per year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Stevens also is in the top 15% of our Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.
Best Engineering Colleges by State
Explore the best engineering colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| New York | 5,231 |
| Pennsylvania | 3,224 |
| Maryland | 1,842 |
| New Jersey | 1,714 |
| District of Columbia | 311 |
| Delaware | 136 |
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Majors Related to Engineering
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Most Popular Majors Related to Engineering
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Computer & Information Sciences | 60,971 |
| Biological & Biomedical Sciences | 28,851 |
| Mathematics & Statistics | 15,127 |
| Physical Sciences | 12,705 |
| Engineering Technologies | 7,672 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 16 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).
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