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2023 Best Value Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

16 Colleges
$35,556 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Medical Science Graduate Certificate School for You

Medical Science is the #147 most popular major in the country with 909 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 16 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for medical science 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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for medical science majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Top 10 Best Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools

Our 2023 rankings named University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center the best value school in the United States for medical science students working on their graduate certificate. UT Southwestern is a small public school located in the city of Dallas.

UT Southwestern graduate students pay an average of $17,845 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Oregon Health & Science University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the large city of Portland, OHSU is a public school with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at OHSU are $28,460 per year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value medical science schools in the United States. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New York.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are $30,056 a year.

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Out of the 16 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public school with a fairly large student population.

UW - Madison graduate students pay an average of $25,501 in tuition and fees each year.

UW - Madison excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Francisco. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools list. UCSF is a small public school located in the city of San Francisco.

UCSF graduate students pay an average of $28,101 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Pitt are $42,024 per year.

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University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate medical science programs. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Minneapolis.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMN Twin Cities are $29,262 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UMN Twin Cities also did well on our Best Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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University of Cincinnati - Main Campus came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. UC is a very large public school located in the large city of Cincinnati.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UC are $26,644 per year.

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Wright State University - Main Campus landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate medical science programs. Wright State University - Main Campus is a large public school located in the suburb of Dayton.

Wright State University - Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $24,286 in tuition and fees each year.

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#10

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

UPenn graduate students pay an average of $42,932 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UPenn also did well on our Best Medical Science Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Medical Science by Region

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Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Medical Science is one of 29 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 66,964
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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