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2023 Best Value Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$21,597 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,930 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate School for You

Geography & Cartography is the #90 most popular major in California with 196 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. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in California to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for geography 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 Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Check out the geography graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Geography & Cartography

Our 2023 rankings named California State University - Long Beach the best value school in California for geography and cartography students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Long Beach, CSULB is a public college with a very large student population.

CSULB graduate students pay an average of $8,280 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Los Angeles. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. Cal State LA is a fairly large public school located in the city of Los Angeles.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Cal State LA are $8,219 a year.

Full Geography & Cartography at California State University - Los Angeles Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at California State University - Dominguez Hills helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value geography and cartography schools in California. Located in the small city of Carson, CSUDH is a public college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CSUDH are $8,494 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. USC is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Los Angeles.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at USC are $61,396 per year.

Full Geography & Cartography at University of Southern California Report

Best Value Geography & Cartography Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Geography & Cartography Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 24
Oregon 148
Nevada 8
Hawaii 12

One of 12 majors within the area of study, geography and cartography has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Economics 6,173
International Relations & National Security 5,010
Political Science & Government 2,664
Sociology 1,907
Anthropology 1,446

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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 Couleur.

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