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2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$0 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$55,627 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting Graduate Certificate School for You

Accounting is one of the most popular subjects to study in Colorado. With 486 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 9th out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Colorado to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for accounting 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.

2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

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

Best Colorado Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Accounting

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado State University - Global Campus the best value school in Colorado for accounting students working on their graduate certificate. Colorado State University - Global Campus is a large public school located in the city of Greenwood Village.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Colorado State University - Global Campus are $9,000 a year.

Colorado State University - Global Campus also took the #2 spot in our Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado rankings.

Read full report on Accounting at Colorado State University - Global Campus

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value accounting schools in Colorado. UCCS is a large public school located in the large city of Colorado Springs.

UCCS graduate students pay an average of $13,854 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Accounting at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 814
Idaho 83
Montana 50
Wyoming 7

One of 20 majors within the area of study, accounting has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Accounting

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137
Finance & Financial Management 5,784

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Pixabay.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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