2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona ranking. This report analyzed 13 schools in Arizona 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.
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Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona
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Our analysis found University of Phoenix - Arizona to be the most popular school for students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Arizona. This large private for-profit school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 1,107 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 69% were women.
Online graduate courses are available at UOPX - Arizona, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 99% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Grand Canyon University is a great place for students working on their graduate certificate. This large private for-profit school is located in Phoenix, Arizona, and it awarded 426 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 82% were women.
Grand Canyon University does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 96% took at least some of their classes online.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, the large public school handed out 263 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.
Around 78% of those degree recipients were women.
Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out ASU - Skysong. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, the large public school awarded 242 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 68% were women.
University of Arizona does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 37% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large public school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 192 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 66% were women.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at ASU - Tempe. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 42% took at least some of their classes online.
Northern Arizona University ranked #6 on this year’s Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona, the large public school handed out 145 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.
On average, graduate certificate students take out $23,445 in loans while pursuing their degree. Of those students who received their degree, 60% were women.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at NAU. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 54% took at least some of their classes online.
American InterContinental University - Online did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular places for students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. Schaumburg, Arizona is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out graduate certificates to 24 students in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 25% were women.
AIU Online is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
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Prescott College ranked #7 on this year’s Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list. Prescot College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Prescott, Arizona. It awarded 20 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 85% were women.
Prescot College does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 99% took at least some of their classes online.
Phoenix Seminary landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular graduate certificate programs. Phoenix Seminary is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and has a very small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 graduate certificates to qualified students.
Of those students who received their degree, 50% were women.
Phoenix Seminary does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 45% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
With a ranking of #10, Ottawa University - Phoenix did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for students working on their graduate certificate.
Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out Ottawa University - Phoenix. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
DeVry University - Arizona ranked #10 on this year’s Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list.
DeVry University - Arizona does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 82% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
University of Advancing Technology did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular places for students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #10 on the list.
University of Advancing Technology does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 47% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Aspen University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona ranking.
Aspen University is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 13 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%.
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