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2023 Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$27,193 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$76,049 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Information Technology Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, information technology students earned 2,370 degrees and certificates from a Maryland school, making the subject the 2nd in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which computer science program is right 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, Computer Science Degree Search has created its Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Maryland to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for IT 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Information Technology

Our 2023 rankings named University of Maryland Global Campus the best value school in Maryland for information technology students working on their graduate certificate. UMGC is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Adelphi.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMGC are $9,342 per year.

UMGC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list.

Read full report on Information Technology at University of Maryland Global Campus

#2

Towson University

Towson, MD

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Towson University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list. Towson is a very large public school located in the city of Towson.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Towson are $11,034 per year.

Towson also made our Best Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list, coming in at #3.

Read full report on Information Technology at Towson University

#3

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Baltimore.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Johns Hopkins are $61,202 per year.

Johns Hopkins also made our Best Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list, coming in at #1.

Full Information Technology at Johns Hopkins University Report

Best Value Information Technology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Information Technology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 1,445
New York 1,927
New Jersey 180
District of Columbia 434
Delaware 399

One of 10 majors within the computer science area of study, information technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

IT Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Computer & IS Security 22,829
Network & System Administration/Administrator 5,501
Information Technology Management 4,009
Computer Support Specialist 3,176
System, Networking, & LAN/WAN Management/Manager 2,077
Information Technology Project Management 2,076
Web/Multimedia Management & Webmaster 887

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems 88,434
Computer Science 59,565
Information Science 18,325
Computer Systems Networking 14,700
Computer Software & Applications 14,336

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Craig Dennis.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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