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Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma

2023 Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$7,343 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$61,137 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Education Graduate Certificate School for You

Education is one of the most popular subjects to study in Oklahoma. With 3,171 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 4th out of all the majors we track in the state.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Oklahoma to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for education 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.

Best Oklahoma Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Education

Our analysis found Northeastern State University to be the best value school for education students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Oklahoma. Located in the remote town of Tahlequah, NSU is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

NSU graduate students pay an average of $5,250 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

NSU also made our Best Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma list, coming in at #3.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is a great value for education students working on their graduate certificate. OSU is a very large public school located in the distant town of Stillwater.

OSU graduate students pay an average of $8,672 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

OSU also took the #1 spot in our Best Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma rankings.

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Out of the 3 schools in Oklahoma that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the # 3 spot on the list. UCO is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Edmond.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UCO are $8,108 a year.

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Best Value Education Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Education Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 16,265
Texas 17,614
New Mexico 1,831

Education Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
General Education 29,810
Curriculum & Instruction 19,832
Student Counseling 13,858
Instructional Media Design 8,695
Teaching English or French 5,791
Other Education 4,858
Teaching Assistants 2,751
Educational Assessment 2,552
Multilingual Education 1,910
Education Philosophy 737
International Education 293

Related Major Annual Graduates
Social Sciences 205,984
Psychology 195,678
Communication & Journalism 120,571
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences 55,820
History 32,731

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 Horadrim.

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