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2023 Best Value Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$41,139 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies is the #26 most popular major in Illinois with 159 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

The Best Value Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

2023 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Check out the area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies

#1

DePaul University

Chicago, IL

Our 2023 rankings named DePaul University the best value school in Illinois for area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Chicago, DePaul is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at DePaul are $18,341 per year.

Read full report on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies at DePaul University

#2

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Chicago helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies schools in Illinois. UChicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UChicago are $63,936 per year.

UChicago also took the #2 spot in our Best Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois rankings.

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Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 60
Ohio 93
Wisconsin 33
Michigan 34

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Area Studies 1,825
Ethnic Studies 1,081
Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other) 5

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Psychology 42,013
Social Sciences 22,292
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929

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 G. Mützel.

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