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2023 Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$16,344 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,300 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 29,053 mental and social health services students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #8 most popular in the country.

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

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 7 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for mental health services 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.

2023 Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Check out the mental health services graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Mental & Social Health Services

Our 2023 rankings named Arizona State University - Skysong the best value school in the Southwest Region for mental and social health services students working on their graduate certificate. ASU - Skysong is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Scottsdale.

ASU - Skysong graduate students pay an average of $9,982 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, AZ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Grand Canyon University are $11,538 per year.

Grand Canyon University also took the #5 spot in our Best Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region rankings.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Houston Baptist University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Houston, HBU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

HBU graduate students pay an average of $13,400 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Abilene Christian University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of Abilene, Abilene Christian is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Abilene Christian graduate students pay an average of $24,174 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Abilene Christian is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at New Mexico Highlands University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value mental and social health services schools in the Southwest Region . New Mexico Highlands University is a small public school located in the town of Las Vegas.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at New Mexico Highlands University are $11,154 a year.

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Arizona State University - Tempe came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Tempe.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at ASU - Tempe are $24,432 a year.

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The University of Texas at San Antonio ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. UTSA is a very large public school located in the city of San Antonio.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UTSA are $27,560 a year.

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Best Mental & Social Health Services Colleges by State

Explore the best mental and social health services colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 1,284
Arizona 2,080
Oklahoma 45
New Mexico 306

Mental & Social Health Services is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Mental Health Services Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor 7,609
Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling 5,433
Other Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions 4,069
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling 3,405
Psychiatric/Mental Health Services Technician 2,779
Clinical/Medical Social Work 2,534
Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling 2,526
Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling 328
Genetic Counseling/Counselor 288
Trauma Counseling 56
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 13
Medical Family Therapy/Therapist 12

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 7 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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