2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, design and applied arts was ranked #36 in the country. In fact 36,301 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Design & Applied Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Check out the design undergraduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Design & Applied Arts Undergraduate Certificate School

#1

The University of Montana

Missoula, MT

3 Undergraduate Certificates

#21 in Quality in the Rocky Mountains Region

$28,476 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Montana the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for design and applied arts students working on their undergraduate certificate. UM is a large public school located in the city of Missoula.

UM undergraduate students pay an average of $28,476 in tuition and fees each year.

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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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