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2023 Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Georgia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$15,944 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$51,829 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Social Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

With 456 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, social sciences is the #12 most popular major in Georgia.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Georgia ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Georgia 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. 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 Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Georgia

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

Best Georgia Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Social Sciences

#1

University of West Georgia

Carrollton, GA

Our 2023 rankings named University of West Georgia the best value school in Georgia for social sciences students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the fringe town of Carrollton, University of West Georgia is a public college with a fairly large student population.

University of West Georgia graduate students pay an average of $6,488 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Georgia Southern University

Statesboro, GA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Georgia Southern University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Georgia list. Located in the distant town of Statesboro, GaSou is a public school with a fairly large student population.

GaSou graduate students pay an average of $7,100 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University Report

#3

University of Georgia

Athens, GA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Georgia list. Located in the midsize city of Athens, UGA is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UGA are $11,156 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UGA is ranked #5 for overall quality for social sciences in Georgia.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Georgia State University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Georgia list. Georgia State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Atlanta.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Georgia State are $9,292 a year.

Full Social Sciences at Georgia State University Report

#5

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Georgia list. Emory is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Atlanta.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Emory are $45,684 per year.

Emory also made our Best Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Georgia list, coming in at #3.

Full Social Sciences at Emory University Report

Best Value Social Sciences Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Social Sciences Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Mississippi 65
Florida 594
Virginia 627
Tennessee 187
North Carolina 572
West Virginia 86
Louisiana 163
South Carolina 80
Kentucky 150
Arkansas 47
Alabama 263

Social Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Economics 6,173
International Relations & National Security 5,010
Political Science & Government 2,664
Geography & Cartography 2,315
Sociology 1,907
Anthropology 1,446
Criminology 936
General Social Sciences 745
Other Social Sciences 532
Urban Studies 432
Archeology 66
Demography & Population Studies 66

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Psychology 42,013
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929
History 4,391

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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 AndrГ© KГјnzelmann.

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