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2023 Best Value Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

9 Colleges
$13,242 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,329 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Psychology Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, psychology students earned 2,220 degrees and certificates from an Illinois school, making the subject the 8th in the state.

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 Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 9 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for psychology 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 Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Psychology Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Psychology

Our analysis found Illinois State University to be the best value school for psychology students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Illinois. Located in the midsize suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Illinois State are $9,773 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list. Located in the large suburb of Edwardsville, SIUE is a public college with a fairly large student population.

SIUE graduate students pay an average of $9,316 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#3

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, IL

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Eastern Illinois University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list. EIU is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Charleston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at EIU are $10,640 a year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at National Louis University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value psychology schools in Illinois. Located in the large city of Chicago, NLU is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NLU are $12,096 per year.

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#5

Trinity Christian College

Palos Heights, IL

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Trinity Christian College helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value psychology schools in Illinois. Trinity Christian is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Palos Heights.

Trinity Christian graduate students pay an average of $10,708 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Northern Illinois University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking. Located in the small suburb of Dekalb, NIU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at NIU are $11,390 a year.

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Chicago State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for psychology students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. CSU is a small public school located in the city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CSU are $9,728 a year.

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The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Chicago ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list. Located in the large city of Chicago, The Chicago School Chicago Campus is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The Chicago School Chicago Campus graduate students pay an average of $23,918 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#9

Roosevelt University

Chicago, IL

Roosevelt University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for psychology students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Roosevelt is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Roosevelt are $21,605 per year.

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Best Value Psychology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Psychology Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 735
Ohio 977
Wisconsin 529
Michigan 745

Psychology Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 29,224
General Psychology 8,051
Child Development & Psychology 2,576
Other Psychology 2,162

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Social Sciences 22,292
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929
History 4,391

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 9 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 Nevit Dilmen.

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