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2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

2 Schools Ranked
$15,079 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,015 Avg Student Debt*

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which nursing program is right for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Nursing Degree Search has developed this Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Colorado to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for nursing 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.

Top Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Regis University

Denver, Colorado
5 Total Awards
$15,079 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Regis University the best value school in Colorado for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out graduate certificates to 5 students in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Regis U are $15,079 a year.

Regis U does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 69% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Regis U also made our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado list, coming in at #1.

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#2

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado
10 Total Awards
$25,584 Average Tuition & Fees

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 nursing schools in Colorado. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the fairly large public school handed out 10 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.

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

Online graduate courses are available at UCCS, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 58% took at least some of their classes online.

UCCS also took the #2 spot in our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado rankings.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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