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2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Montana

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There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 and bootcamps 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 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Montana to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Montana to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.

Learn more about these popular schools below:

#1

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana
195 Total Awards
$6,892 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Montana the most popular school in Montana for students working on their graduate certificate. Missoula, Montana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out graduate certificates to 195 students in 2020-2021.

Around 71% of those degree recipients were women.

Online graduate courses are available at UM, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In fact, around 19% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#2

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana
93 Total Awards
$6,805 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Montana State University is a great place for students working on their graduate certificate. Located in Bozeman, Montana, the fairly large public school awarded 93 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.

Around 84% of those degree recipients were women.

Online graduate courses are available at MSU Bozeman, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 77% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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3 Total Awards
$6,041 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Montana Technological University is a great place for students working on their graduate certificate. Montana Tech is located in Butte, Montana and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 graduate certificates to qualified students.

Of those students who received their degree, 67% were women.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Montana Tech. In 2019-2020 about 61% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#4

University of Providence

Great Falls, Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Providence. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Montana list.

If you are interested in distance education, University of Providence is an excellent choice, since graduate classes are offered online.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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