2023 Best Value Communication Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Communication Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

Communication Sciences is the #29 most popular major in the country with 10,547 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.

The Best Value Communication Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for communication sciences students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Communication Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Check out the communication sciences graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Communication Sciences

#1

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, WI

16 Graduate Certificates

#5 in Quality in the Great Lakes Region

$25,501 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Wisconsin - Madison the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for communication sciences students working on their graduate certificate. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the large city of Madison.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UW - Madison are $25,501 per year.

UW - Madison did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Communication Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Full Communication Sciences at University of Wisconsin - Madison Report

#2

University of Cincinnati - Main Campus

Cincinnati, OH

8 Graduate Certificates

$26,644 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Cincinnati, UC is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UC are $26,644 a year.

Full Communication Sciences at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus Report

Best Communication Sciences Colleges by State

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Majors Related to Communication Sciences

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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).
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