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2023 Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$6,518 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate School for You

With 130 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, health sciences and services is the #12 most popular major in Colorado.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Colorado to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Colorado to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for health science 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 an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Health Sciences & Services

#1

Front Range Community College

Westminster, CO

Our 2023 rankings named Front Range Community College the best value school in Colorado for health sciences and services students working on their basic certificate. FRCC is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Westminster.

FRCC undergraduate students pay an average of $4,032 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Fort Lewis College

Durango, CO

The excellent basic certificate programs at Fort Lewis College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health sciences and services schools in Colorado. FLC is a small public school located in the distant town of Durango.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at FLC are $9,004 a year.

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Best Value Health Sciences & Services Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 421
Idaho 143
Montana 46
Wyoming 135

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, health sciences and services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Health Science Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences 29,840
General Health & Wellness 6,105

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 Sandra M. Palumbo.

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