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2023 Best Value Allied Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$28,178 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$88,704 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Allied Health Professions Graduate Certificate School for You

Allied Health Professions is the #18 most popular major in the country with 82,308 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 Allied Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Plains States Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for allied health 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Allied Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Check out the allied health graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Allied Health Professions

#1

Cox College

Springfield, MO

Our 2023 rankings named Cox College the best value school in the Plains States Region for allied health professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Springfield, Cox College is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Cox College are $12,610 a year.

Read full report on Allied Health Professions at Cox College

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Nebraska Medical Center helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value allied health professions schools in the Plains States Region . Located in the large city of Omaha, UNMC is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNMC are $26,961 a year.

Full Allied Health Professions at University of Nebraska Medical Center Report

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means A T Still University of Health Sciences is a great value for allied health professions students working on their graduate certificate. A T Still University of Health Sciences is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Kirksville.

A T Still University of Health Sciences graduate students pay an average of $42,128 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Allied Health Professions at A T Still University of Health Sciences Report

#4

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Iowa is a great value for allied health professions students working on their graduate certificate. Iowa is a very large public school located in the city of Iowa City.

Iowa graduate students pay an average of $31,012 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Iowa also is in the top 20% of our Best Allied Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking.

Full Allied Health Professions at University of Iowa Report

Best Allied Health Professions Colleges by State

Explore the best allied health professions colleges for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 1,137
Minnesota 756
Kansas 576
Iowa 577
Nebraska 596
North Dakota 170
South Dakota 217

Allied Health Professions is one of 30 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Public Health 40,596

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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