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2023 Best Value Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

10 Colleges
$25,949 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate School for You

Educational Assessment is the #11 most popular major in the country with 2,552 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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The Best Value Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 10 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for assessment students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 10 Best Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Loyola University Chicago the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for educational assessment students working on their graduate certificate. Loyola Chicago is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

Loyola Chicago graduate students pay an average of $19,894 in tuition and fees each year.

Loyola Chicago excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Akron Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Akron.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Akron Main Campus are $11,936 per year.

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#3

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Purdue University - Main Campus is a great value for educational assessment students working on their graduate certificate. Purdue is a very large public school located in the small city of West Lafayette.

Purdue graduate students pay an average of $28,794 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Purdue also did well on our Best Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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#4

Ball State University

Muncie, IN

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Ball State University is a great value for educational assessment students working on their graduate certificate. Ball State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Muncie.

Ball State graduate students pay an average of $26,600 in tuition and fees each year.

Ball State not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Indiana University - Bloomington is a great value for educational assessment students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at IU Bloomington are $33,352 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, IU Bloomington also is in the top 10% of our Best Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

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With a ranking of #6, Western Michigan University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for educational assessment students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Kalamazoo, WMU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at WMU are $26,248 per year.

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University of Cincinnati - Main Campus landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate educational assessment programs. Located in the city of Cincinnati, UC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UC are $26,644 a year.

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Miami University - Oxford ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large public school located in the fringe town of Oxford.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Miami University - Oxford are $32,332 a year.

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#9

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Michigan State University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Educational Assessment Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Michigan State are $38,638 per year.

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#10

University of Toledo

Toledo, OH

University of Toledo landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate educational assessment programs. University of Toledo is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Toledo.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Toledo are $27,739 per year.

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Best Educational Assessment Colleges by State

Explore the best educational assessment colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Ohio 50
Illinois 69
Indiana 27
Michigan 22

One of 14 majors within the teaching area of study, educational assessment has other similar majors worth exploring.

Assessment Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Learning Sciences 1,541
Educational Statistics & Research Methods 295
Educational Evaluation & Research 293
Other Educational Assessment, Evaluation, & Research 286
Educational Assessment, Testing, & Measurement 129

Majors Similar to Assessment

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
General Education 29,810

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 10 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 US Navy Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Paul J. Phelps.

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