2023 Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which healthcare program is right for you. 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 and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Healthcare Degree Search has created its Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in District of Columbia to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for healthcare students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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Top Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia
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Our 2023 rankings named George Washington University the best value school in District of Columbia for healthcare students working on their graduate certificate. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, the large private not-for-profit school awarded 157 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at GWU are $32,904 a year. Graduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $29,615 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
GWU does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. During the 2019-2020 year, about 37% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, GWU is ranked #1 for overall quality in District of Columbia.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Howard University is a great place for healthcare students working on their graduate certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. Howard is located in Washington, District of Columbia and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 graduate certificates to qualified students.
Howard graduate students pay an average of $34,326 in tuition and fees each year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Howard. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 24% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Howard also took the #2 spot in our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia rankings.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 2 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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