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2023 Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

37 Colleges
$17,148 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$89,269 Avg Salary

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.

2023 Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Top 10 Best Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools

Our analysis found West Coast University - Dallas to be the best value school for health professions students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southwest Region . West Coast University - Dallas is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Dallas.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at West Coast University - Dallas are $10,735 a year.

Full Health Professions at West Coast University - Dallas Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. ASU - Skysong is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Scottsdale.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at ASU - Skysong are $9,982 a year.

ASU - Skysong not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list.

Full Health Professions at Arizona State University - Skysong Report

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a great value for health professions students working on their graduate certificate. UT Health San Antonio is a small public school located in the city of San Antonio.

UT Health San Antonio graduate students pay an average of $13,448 in tuition and fees each year.

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#4

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, AZ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Grand Canyon University are $11,538 per year.

Full Health Professions at Grand Canyon University Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. TTUHSC is a moderately-sized public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at TTUHSC are $19,056 per year.

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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in the large city of Dallas, UT Southwestern is a public school with a small student population.

UT Southwestern graduate students pay an average of $17,845 in tuition and fees each year.

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Oklahoma Christian University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate health professions programs. OC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Edmond.

OC graduate students pay an average of $11,250 in tuition and fees each year.

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#8

Angelo State University

San Angelo, TX

Angelo State University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Angelo State is a fairly large public school located in the city of San Angelo.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Angelo State are $14,590 a year.

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The University of Texas Medical Branch landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate health professions programs. UTMB Galveston is a small public school located in the fringe town of Galveston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UTMB Galveston are $21,997 a year.

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University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate health professions programs. Located in the large city of Oklahoma City, UOHSC is a public college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UOHSC are $22,154 per year.

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Best Health Professions Colleges by State

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

Health Professions Majors to Study

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
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596
Health Sciences & Services 35,945
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 29,833
Mental & Social Health Services 29,053
Medicine 28,629
Dental Support Services 26,399
Communication Sciences 22,298
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences 20,393
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science 18,901
Somatic Bodywork & Therapeutic Services 10,751
Health/Medical Prep Programs 9,210
Other Health Professions 7,984
Dentistry 6,770
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services 6,158
Bioethics/Medical Ethics 5,115
Alternative Medicine & Systems 3,564
Chiropractic 2,658
Health Aids/Attendants/Orderlies 2,374
Medical Illustration & Informatics 2,089
Optometry 1,822
Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences 1,775
Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services 960
Medical Science 909
Movement & Mind-Body Therapies 294
Alternative Medical Support Services 227
Energy & Biologically Based Therapies 68

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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