2023 Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Information Technology Graduate Certificate School for You
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The Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 9 schools in the Plains States Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for IT 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. 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.
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2023 Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Colleges.
Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Information Technology
Our 2023 rankings named Minnesota State University - Mankato the best value school in the Plains States Region for information technology students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Mankato, Minnesota State Mankato is a public school with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Minnesota State Mankato are $9,308 a year.
Minnesota State Mankato excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list.
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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Metropolitan State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value information technology schools in the Plains States Region . Located in the large city of Saint Paul, Metro State is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.
Metro State graduate students pay an average of $10,237 in tuition and fees each year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. North Dakota State University is a large public school located in the medium-sized city of Fargo.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at North Dakota State University are $12,028 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Capella University is a very large private for-profit school located in the city of Minneapolis.
Capella University graduate students pay an average of $14,784 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Located in the large city of Omaha, UNOMAHA is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNOMAHA are $16,374 per year.
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Iowa State University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Located in the city of Ames, Iowa State is a public college with a very large student population.
Iowa State graduate students pay an average of $26,948 in tuition and fees each year.
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Washington University in St Louis did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for information technology students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #8 on the list. WUSTL is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Saint Louis.
WUSTL graduate students pay an average of $58,288 in tuition and fees each year.
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University of Missouri - St Louis did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for information technology students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, UMSL is a public college with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UMSL are $30,756 a year.
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Best Information Technology Colleges by State
Explore the best information technology schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Missouri | 162 |
| Minnesota | 295 |
| Iowa | 54 |
| Kansas | 38 |
| Nebraska | 109 |
| North Dakota | 18 |
| South Dakota | 38 |
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Majors Related to IT
One of 9 majors within the area of study, information technology has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Majors Related to IT
| 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 9 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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