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2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$20,073 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$99,011 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Graduate Certificate School for You

Nursing is the most popular major in the United States with 27,247 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.

With all the nursing programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 6 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for nursing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

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

Our analysis found Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Rocky Mountains Region . RMUoHP is a small private for-profit school located in the midsize city of Provo.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at RMUoHP are $17,416 a year.

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#2

Regis University

Denver, CO

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regis University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the city of Denver, Regis U is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Regis U are $15,079 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Regis U is ranked #2 for overall quality for nursing in the Rocky Mountains Region .

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#3

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Utah helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value nursing schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at U of U are $25,705 a year.

U of U also took the #1 spot in our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region rankings.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Montana State University is a great value for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the remote town of Bozeman, MSU Bozeman is a public college with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at MSU Bozeman are $22,391 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, MSU Bozeman is ranked #3 for overall quality for nursing in the Rocky Mountains Region .

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Out of the 6 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Pueblo landed the # 5 spot on the list. Colorado State University - Pueblo is a medium-sized public school located in the midsize city of Pueblo.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Colorado State University - Pueblo are $19,773 a year.

Colorado State University - Pueblo also took the #5 spot in our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region rankings.

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With a ranking of #6, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs did quite well on this year’s best value schools for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. UCCS is a large public school located in the city of Colorado Springs.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCCS are $25,584 a year.

UCCS did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.

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Best Nursing Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 6,496
Utah 17,535
Montana 745
Idaho 1,593
Wyoming 397

Nursing Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Registered Nursing 266,651
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing 16,104
Nursing Administration 9,838
Nursing Practice 7,992
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing 5,092
Nursing Science 4,600
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing 2,287
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing 2,021
Nurse Anesthetist 1,936
Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing 1,883
Critical Care Nursing 773
Geriatric Nurse/Nursing 563
School Nursing 553
Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery 509
Clinical Nurse Leader 444
Clinical Nurse Specialist 419
Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing 331
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing 181
Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing 57
Emergency Room/Trauma Nursing 53
Palliative Care Nursing 14
Forensic Nursing 14

Related Major Annual Graduates
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 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 Aleksahgabrielle.

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