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2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,520 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,664 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Education Graduate Certificate School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, general education was ranked 7th in Missouri. In fact, 493 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Missouri to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for education 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 General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Missouri Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Education

Our 2023 rankings named University of Missouri - Columbia the best value school in Missouri for general education students working on their graduate certificate. Mizzou is a fairly large public school located in the city of Columbia.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Mizzou are $11,255 a year.

Mizzou did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri list.

Full General Education at University of Missouri - Columbia Report

#2

Lindenwood University

Saint Charles, MO

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Lindenwood University is a great value for general education students working on their graduate certificate. Lindenwood University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Saint Charles.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Lindenwood University are $9,784 a year.

Read full report on General Education at Lindenwood University

Best Value General Education Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 373
Minnesota 2,028
Iowa 226
South Dakota 88
North Dakota 24
Nebraska 59

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

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 averages are for the top 2 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 KOKUYO.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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