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2023 Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$21,730 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,664 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Education Graduate Certificate School for You

General Education is the #12 most popular major in the country with 21,189 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for education 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 General Education Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Education

Our 2023 rankings named Boise State University the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for general education students working on their graduate certificate. Boise State is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Boise.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Boise State are $26,558 a year. On average, education graduates from Boise State take out $27,507 in student loans while working on their Graduate Certificate.

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#2

Colorado Mesa University

Grand Junction, CO

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Colorado Mesa University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general education schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . Colorado Mesa is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Grand Junction.

Colorado Mesa graduate students pay an average of $14,535 in tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means The University of Montana is a great value for general education students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Missoula, UM is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UM are $24,096 per year.

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Best General Education Colleges by State

Explore the best general education colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 324
Utah 159
Idaho 40
Montana 5
Wyoming 68

One of 14 majors within the area of study, general education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Educational Administration 45,458
Teacher Education Grade Specific 34,451
Special Education 25,158
Teacher Education Subject Specific 20,616
Curriculum & Instruction 19,784

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 KOKUYO.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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