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Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$39,361 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

General Social Sciences is the #153 most popular major in the country with 745 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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.

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 the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the New England Region 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.

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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Social Sciences

Our analysis found University of Connecticut to be the best value school for general social sciences students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the New England Region . Located in the large suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 a year.

Read full report on General Social Sciences at University of Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Boston. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the large city of Boston, UMass Boston is a public school with a large student population.

UMass Boston graduate students pay an average of $36,485 in tuition and fees each year.

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Best General Social Sciences Colleges by State

Explore the best general social sciences schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 4
Connecticut 7
Rhode Island 2
Maine 0
Vermont 0

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

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 2 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).

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