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2023 Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$12,919 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$76,049 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Information Technology Graduate Certificate School for You

Information Technology is the #42 most popular major in Colorado with 132 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

The Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Colorado 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. 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 Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

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

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

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado State University - Fort Collins the best value school in Colorado for information technology students working on their graduate certificate. Colorado State is a very large public school located in the city of Fort Collins.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Colorado State are $13,313 a year.

Colorado State also took the #3 spot in our Best Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado rankings.

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#2

Regis University

Denver, CO

Out of the 3 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Regis University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Denver, Regis U is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

Regis U graduate students pay an average of $15,079 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Regis U is ranked #4 for overall quality for IT in Colorado.

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Out of the 3 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Metropolitan State University of Denver landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Denver, MSU Denver is a public school with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at MSU Denver are $10,364 per year.

Full Information Technology at Metropolitan State University of Denver Report

Best Value Information Technology Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Utah 1,007
Idaho 0

Information Technology is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems 20,748
Computer Science 15,813
Information Science 6,934
Computer Software & Applications 4,047
Computer Systems Analysis 817

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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