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Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

2023 Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$36,738 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$51,829 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Social Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, social sciences students earned 3,516 degrees and certificates from a Colorado school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Colorado to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for social sciences 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.

Best Colorado Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Social Sciences

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado School of Mines the best value school in Colorado for social sciences students working on their graduate certificate. Mines is a medium-sized public school located in the large suburb of Golden.

Mines graduate students pay an average of $19,532 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Mines is ranked #1 for overall quality for social sciences in Colorado.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value social sciences schools in Colorado. UCCS is a large public school located in the city of Colorado Springs.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UCCS are $13,854 a year.

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#3

University of Denver

Denver, CO

Out of the 3 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Denver landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

DU graduate students pay an average of $53,943 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

DU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Colorado list.

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Best Value Social Sciences Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 2,405
Montana 368
Idaho 679
Wyoming 253

Social Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Political Science & Government 49,282
Economics 49,055
Sociology 38,475
General Social Sciences 18,997
International Relations & National Security 14,306
Anthropology 11,415
Criminology 11,039
Geography & Cartography 8,526
Other Social Sciences 2,414
Urban Studies 1,507
Sociology & Anthropology 541
Archeology 339
Demography & Population Studies 88

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 327,871
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 3 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 AndrГ© KГјnzelmann.

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