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2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$31,004 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

General Social Sciences is the #74 most popular major in Maryland with 66 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Maryland to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for social sciences 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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Social Sciences

Our 2023 rankings named University of Maryland - College Park the best value school in Maryland for general social sciences students working on their graduate certificate. UMCP is a very large public school located in the large suburb of College Park.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMCP are $16,995 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UMCP is ranked #3 for overall quality for social sciences in Maryland.

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Out of the 3 schools in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - Baltimore County landed the # 2 spot on the list. UMBC is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Baltimore.

UMBC graduate students pay an average of $14,814 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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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 general social sciences schools in Maryland. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.

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

Johns Hopkins did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list.

Read full report on General Social Sciences at Johns Hopkins University

Best Value General Social Sciences Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value General Social Sciences Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 52
Pennsylvania 19
New Jersey 28

One of 12 majors within the area of study, general social sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Social Sciences

Related Major Annual Graduates
Economics 6,173
International Relations & National Security 5,010
Political Science & Government 2,664
Geography & Cartography 2,315
Sociology 1,907

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 Manfred Werner (Tsui).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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