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2023 Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in New York

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$18,601 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, mental and social health services was ranked 10th in New York. In fact, 1,622 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. 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 to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in New York ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New York to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for mental health services 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.

Best New York Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Mental & Social Health Services

Our analysis found Tompkins Cortland Community College to be the best value school for mental and social health services students who want to pursue a basic certificate in New York. Located in the town of Dryden, Tompkins Cortland is a public college with a small student population.

Tompkins Cortland undergraduate students pay an average of $6,625 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St. Joseph’s College - New York. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in New York list. SJC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Brooklyn.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SJC are $30,576 per year.

SJC also took the #5 spot in our Best Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in New York rankings.

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Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 750
Maryland 461
New Jersey 219
District of Columbia 24
Delaware 76

Mental & Social Health Services is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Mental Health Services Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor 7,609
Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling 5,433
Other Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions 4,069
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling 3,405
Psychiatric/Mental Health Services Technician 2,779
Clinical/Medical Social Work 2,534
Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling 2,526
Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling 328
Genetic Counseling/Counselor 288
Trauma Counseling 56
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 13
Medical Family Therapy/Therapist 12

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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