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2023 Best Value Public Health Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$21,676 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$61,096 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Health Graduate Certificate School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, public health was ranked 4th in North Carolina. In fact, 1,477 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Public Health Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for public health 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 Public Health Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Public Health Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Public Health

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Our 2023 rankings named East Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for public health students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at ECU are $7,594 a year.

ECU also made our Best Public Health Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list, coming in at #2.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of North Carolina at Greensboro helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value public health schools in North Carolina. UNC Greensboro is a fairly large public school located in the city of Greensboro.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNC Greensboro are $8,265 per year.

Read full report on Public Health at University of North Carolina at Greensboro

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means North Carolina State University is a great value for public health students working on their graduate certificate. NC State is a very large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NC State are $11,703 per year.

Read full report on Public Health at North Carolina State University

#4

Duke University

Durham, NC

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Duke University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value public health schools in North Carolina. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Durham.

Duke graduate students pay an average of $59,141 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Duke did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Public Health Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list.

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Best Value Public Health Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 2,030
Tennessee 390
Georgia 1,455
Kentucky 371
West Virginia 352
Virginia 1,071
Alabama 700
Louisiana 362
Mississippi 219
South Carolina 859
Arkansas 233

Public Health is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Public Health Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Public Health 22,778
Public Health Education and Promotion 4,563
Other Public Health 3,432
Health Services Administration 3,119
Community Health and Preventive Medicine 2,272
International Public Health/International Health 1,599
Environmental Health 1,344
Behavioral Aspects of Health 814
Health/Medical Physics 258
Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene 211
Maternal and Child Health 163
Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality 43

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 4 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 Article 25 Flickr.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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