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2023 Best Value Sociology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$26,495 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Sociology Graduate Certificate School for You

Sociology is the #94 most popular major in the country with 1,907 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.

The Best Value Sociology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region 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 the Southeast Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for sociology 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 Sociology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

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

Best Southeast Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Sociology

Our analysis found Appalachian State University to be the best value school for sociology students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southeast Region . Appalachian State is a fairly large public school located in the town of Boone.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Appalachian State are $23,017 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Appalachian State also is in the top 20% of our Best Sociology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a great value for sociology students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Greensboro, UNC Greensboro is a public school with a large student population.

UNC Greensboro graduate students pay an average of $21,983 in tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Middle Tennessee State University is a great value for sociology students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the midsize city of Murfreesboro, Middle Tennessee State University is a public college with a very large student population.

Middle Tennessee State University graduate students pay an average of $27,432 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Sociology at Middle Tennessee State University Report

#4

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Kentucky helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value sociology schools in the Southeast Region . UK is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lexington.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UK are $33,548 a year.

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Best Sociology Colleges by State

Explore the best sociology colleges for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 39
Florida 57
Georgia 49
North Carolina 80
Tennessee 40
Kentucky 24
Louisiana 17
Alabama 54
South Carolina 2
Mississippi 18
Arkansas 10
West Virginia 6

One of 12 majors within the area of study, sociology 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
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 Kontos.

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