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2023 Best Value Education Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$5,739 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$21,471 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Education Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Education is one of the most popular subjects to study in Colorado. With 3,271 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 9th out of all the majors we track in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Education Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Colorado to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in Colorado to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate programs for education students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Education Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for education majors pursuing a undergraduate certificate.

Best Colorado Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Education

#1

Front Range Community College

Westminster, CO

Our analysis found Front Range Community College to be the best value school for education students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Colorado. FRCC is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Westminster.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at FRCC are $4,032 per year.

FRCC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Education Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Colorado list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Red Rocks Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Education Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Colorado list. Red Rocks Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Lakewood.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Red Rocks Community College are $4,389 per year.

Red Rocks Community College also took the #2 spot in our Best Education Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Colorado rankings.

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Out of the 5 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Pueblo Community College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Pueblo Community College is a medium-sized public school located in the midsize city of Pueblo.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Pueblo Community College are $4,536 per year.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Community College of Denver is a great value for education students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in the city of Denver, CCD is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CCD are $4,745 per year.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is a great value for education students working on their undergraduate certificate. UCCS is a large public school located in the large city of Colorado Springs.

UCCS undergraduate students pay an average of $10,994 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Education Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Value Education Schools in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 14,970
Montana 960
Idaho 1,626
Wyoming 529

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 5 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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