2023 Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Health Professions Graduate Certificate School for You
Health Professions is the most popular major in Missouri with 16,143 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.
The Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 14 schools in Missouri 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.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for health professions majors pursuing a graduate certificate.
Top 10 Best Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Stephens College the best value school in Missouri for health professions students working on their graduate certificate. Stephens is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Columbia.
Stephens graduate students pay an average of $9,230 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at Missouri State University - Springfield helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health professions schools in Missouri. Missouri State is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Springfield.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Missouri State are $6,858 a year.
Out of the 14 schools in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeast Missouri State University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Southeast Missouri State University is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of Cape Girardeau.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Southeast Missouri State University are $6,611 per year.
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Out of the 14 schools in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the # 4 spot on the list. Mizzou is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Columbia.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Mizzou are $11,255 a year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Mizzou is ranked #2 for overall quality for health professions in Missouri.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at Park University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health professions schools in Missouri. Park University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Parkville.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Park University are $6,435 per year.
With a ranking of #6, Cox College did quite well on this year’s best value schools for health professions students working on their graduate certificate. Cox College is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Springfield.
Cox College graduate students pay an average of $12,610 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
University of Missouri - Kansas City 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. Located in the city of Kansas City, UMKC is a public school with a large student population.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMKC are $11,745 per year.
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Maryville University of Saint Louis 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 #8 on the list. Maryville U is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Saint Louis.
Maryville U graduate students pay an average of $15,696 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Maryville U did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri list.
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With a ranking of #9, Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College did quite well on this year’s best value schools for health professions students working on their graduate certificate. Goldfarb School of Nursing is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Saint Louis.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Goldfarb School of Nursing are $10,872 a year.
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With a ranking of #10, Research College of Nursing did quite well on this year’s best value schools for health professions students working on their graduate certificate. Research College of Nursing is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Kansas City.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Research College of Nursing are $10,520 per year.
Best Value Health Professions Colleges in the Plains States Region
Explore all the Best Value Health Professions Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Kansas | 5,886 |
Minnesota | 25,582 |
Iowa | 6,876 |
South Dakota | 2,186 |
Nebraska | 4,665 |
North Dakota | 2,083 |
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Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 14 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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