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2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$26,053 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

In 2020-2021, 668 degrees and certificates were awarded to child development and psychology students who went to a New York college or university. This makes it the #36 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in New York to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in New York 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.

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 Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

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

Best New York 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 New York for child development and psychology students working on their graduate certificate. SUNY Stony Brook is a very large public school located in the suburb of Stony Brook.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at SUNY Stony Brook are $13,838 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, SUNY Stony Brook also is in the top 20% of our Best Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in New York ranking.

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#2

Hunter College

New York, NY

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Hunter College is a great value for child development and psychology students working on their graduate certificate. Hunter is a very large public school located in the city of New York.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Hunter are $11,398 per year.

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Out of the 3 schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia University in the City of New York landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 per year.

Columbia also made our Best Child Development & Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list, coming in at #3.

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Best Value Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
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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