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2023 Best Value Student Counseling Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$23,573 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,434 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Student Counseling Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, student counseling students earned 2,023 degrees and certificates from a California school, making the subject the 5th in the state.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value Student Counseling Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 6 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for student counseling students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Student Counseling Graduate Certificate Schools in California

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

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Student Counseling

Our 2023 rankings named California State University - Los Angeles the best value school in California for student counseling students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, Cal State LA is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Cal State LA are $8,219 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Dominguez Hills. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Student Counseling Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. CSUDH is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Carson.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CSUDH are $8,494 a year.

Read full report on Student Counseling at California State University - Dominguez Hills

#3

Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loyola Marymount University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Student Counseling Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. Located in the city of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Loyola Marymount are $19,922 a year.

Loyola Marymount not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Student Counseling Graduate Certificate Schools in California list.

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#4

University of Redlands

Redlands, CA

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Redlands is a great value for student counseling students working on their graduate certificate. University of Redlands is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Redlands.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at University of Redlands are $23,532 a year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Alliant International University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Student Counseling Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. Alliant is a small private for-profit school located in the large city of San Diego.

Alliant graduate students pay an average of $19,874 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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University of Southern California did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for student counseling students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

USC graduate students pay an average of $61,396 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Student Counseling at University of Southern California

Best Value Student Counseling Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Student Counseling Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 166
Oregon 208
Nevada 37
Alaska 21

Student Counseling is one of 14 different types of teaching programs to choose from.

Student Counseling Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services 12,323
College Student Counseling & Personnel Services 1,082
Other Student Counseling & Personnel Services 453

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 6 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).
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