2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.
The Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 6 schools in Louisiana to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for teaching 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.
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Top Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana
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Our 2023 rankings named McNeese State University the best value school in Louisiana for teaching students working on their graduate certificate. McNeese is a medium-sized public school situated in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It awarded 14 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at McNeese are $16,450 a year. Graduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $30,034 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at McNeese. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 84% took at least some of their classes online.
McNeese not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list. Louisiana Tech is a fairly large public school situated in Ruston, Louisiana. It awarded 19 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Louisiana Tech graduate students pay an average of $12,690 in tuition and fees each year.
One thing to take note of is that Louisiana Tech does offer online graduate classes in some areas. During the 2019-2020 year, about 66% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Louisiana Tech also took the #3 spot in our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana rankings.
Out of the 6 schools in Louisiana that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Louisiana at Monroe landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in Monroe, Louisiana, the medium-sized public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
ULM graduate students pay an average of $21,877 in tuition and fees each year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since ULM does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 74% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
ULM did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern State University of Louisiana. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list. Northwestern State University of Louisiana is a fairly large public school located in Natchitoches, Louisiana that handed out 54 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at NSU are $20,402 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since NSU does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 97% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
NSU also made our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list, coming in at #4.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list. UL Lafayette is a fairly large public school situated in Lafayette, Louisiana. It awarded 2 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
UL Lafayette graduate students pay an average of $23,858 in tuition and fees each year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at UL Lafayette. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 53% took at least some of their classes online.
UL Lafayette did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list.
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana ranking. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the large public school awarded 31 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Louisiana State University are $29,966 a year. On average, graduate certificate students take out $27,329 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Louisiana State University does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 66% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 6 schools only.
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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