2023 Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Health Professions Graduate Certificate School for You
In 2020-2021, 977,800 health professions students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #2 most popular in the country.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 37 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for health professions 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.
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Our 2023 rankings named West Coast University - Dallas the best value school in the Southwest Region for health professions students working on their graduate certificate. West Coast University - Dallas is a small private for-profit school located in the large city of Dallas.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at West Coast University - Dallas are $10,735 per year.
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Out of the 37 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the # 2 spot on the list. ASU - Skysong is a fairly large public school located in the city of Scottsdale.
ASU - Skysong graduate students pay an average of $9,982 in tuition and fees each year.
ASU - Skysong also took the #2 spot in our Best Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region rankings.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. UT Health San Antonio is a small public school located in the city of San Antonio.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Health San Antonio are $13,448 per year.
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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Grand Canyon University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health professions schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the large city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit school with a very large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Grand Canyon University are $11,538 a year.
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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health professions schools in the Southwest Region . TTUHSC is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Lubbock.
TTUHSC graduate students pay an average of $19,056 in tuition and fees each year.
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Dallas, UT Southwestern is a public college with a small student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Southwestern are $17,845 per year.
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Oklahoma Christian University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for health professions students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. OC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Edmond.
OC graduate students pay an average of $11,250 in tuition and fees each year.
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Angelo State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Angelo State is a large public school located in the small city of San Angelo.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Angelo State are $14,590 per year.
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The University of Texas Medical Branch did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for health professions students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. UTMB Galveston is a small public school located in the fringe town of Galveston.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UTMB Galveston are $21,997 per year.
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University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in the city of Oklahoma City, UOHSC is a public school with a small student population.
UOHSC graduate students pay an average of $22,154 in tuition and fees each year.
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Explore the best health professions colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Arizona | 24,705 |
| Texas | 45,833 |
| New Mexico | 3,731 |
| Oklahoma | 6,642 |
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Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 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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