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2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$8,360 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,664 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Education Graduate Certificate School for You

General Education is one of the most popular subjects to study in Virginia. With 918 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 6th out of all the majors we track in the state.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. 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 General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

Check out the education graduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best General Education Graduate Certificate School

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

Our analysis found Liberty University to be the best value school for general education students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Virginia. Located in the city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Liberty University are $8,360 per year.

Read full report on General Education at Liberty University

Best Value General Education Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Kentucky 95
Tennessee 605
North Carolina 255
Georgia 117
Florida 622
West Virginia 301
South Carolina 352
Arkansas 133
Louisiana 116
Mississippi 407
Alabama 115

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

Education Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
General Education 29,810

Majors Similar to Education

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
Curriculum & Instruction 19,832

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 KOKUYO.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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