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2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$33,127 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate School for You

Child Development & Psychology is the #79 most popular major in the country with 2,576 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for child development students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Check out the child development 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 Child Development & Psychology

#1

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

Our 2023 rankings named Stony Brook University the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for child development and psychology students working on their graduate certificate. SUNY Stony Brook is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Stony Brook.

SUNY Stony Brook graduate students pay an average of $25,628 in tuition and fees each year.

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#1

Hunter College

New York, NY

Our analysis found Hunter College to be the best value school for child development and psychology students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Middle Atlantic Region . Hunter is a fairly large public school located in the large city of New York.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Hunter are $20,828 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia University in the City of New York. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Columbia is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.

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Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best child development and psychology colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 668
Pennsylvania 198
Maryland 19
New Jersey 109
District of Columbia 25
Delaware 7

Child Development & Psychology is one of 3 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 29,224
General Psychology 8,051
Other Psychology 2,162

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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