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2023 Best Value Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$52,050 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate School for You

Gerontology is the #162 most popular major in the country with 655 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for gerontology 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. 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.

2023 Best Value Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Gerontology

Our 2023 rankings named University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for gerontology students working on their graduate certificate. Pitt is a very large public school located in the city of Pittsburgh.

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

Full Gerontology at University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Columbia University in the City of New York helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value gerontology schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Columbia graduate students pay an average of $52,924 in tuition and fees each year.

Columbia excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.

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#3

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Johns Hopkins University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value gerontology schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Johns Hopkins are $61,202 a year.

Johns Hopkins also claimed a spot on our Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Gerontology at Johns Hopkins University

Best Gerontology Colleges by State

Explore the best gerontology schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 17
Pennsylvania 21
Maryland 12
New Jersey 0
District of Columbia 7

One of 36 majors within the area of study, gerontology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 2,491
Sustainability Science 1,547
Nutrition Science 1,496
Behavioral Science 1,358
Computational Science 1,063

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Photo by Chalmers Butterfield.

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