2023 Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.
The Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 10 schools in Florida to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for healthcare students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees 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 Florida
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Our 2023 rankings named Florida Atlantic University the best value school in Florida for healthcare students working on their graduate certificate. Located in Boca Raton, Florida, the large public school handed out 27 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.
FAU graduate students pay an average of $18,482 in tuition and fees each year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at FAU. During the 2019-2020 year, about 90% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Florida is a great place for healthcare students working on their graduate certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. University of Florida is a large public school located in Gainesville, Florida that handed out 250 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UF are $30,130 per year.
Online graduate courses are available at UF, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 79% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UF is ranked #1 for overall quality in Florida.
Out of the 10 schools in Florida that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Central Florida landed the # 3 spot on the list. University of Central Florida is a large public school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 28 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
UCF graduate students pay an average of $28,657 in tuition and fees each year. By the time they get their graduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $18,102 in student loans.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at UCF. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 79% took at least some of their classes online.
UCF not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at Florida International University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in Florida. FIU is located in Miami, Florida and has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 37 graduate certificates to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at FIU are $24,211 a year.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at FIU. During the 2019-2020 year, about 84% 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, FIU is ranked #3 for overall quality in Florida.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of North Florida helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in Florida. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out graduate certificates to 19 students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNF are $21,930 per year.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at UNF. In fact, around 94% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
The University of Tampa ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list. This fairly large private not-for-profit school is located in Tampa, Florida, and it awarded 3 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
UT graduate students pay an average of $12,014 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at UT. In fact, around 25% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Jacksonville University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida ranking. JU is located in Jacksonville, Florida and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 28 graduate certificates to qualified students.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at JU are $14,039 per year.
JU 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, 57% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
JU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list.
Florida Southern College ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list. Located in Lakeland, Florida, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 8 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.
Florida Southern graduate students pay an average of $17,482 in tuition and fees each year.
One thing to take note of is that Florida Southern does offer online graduate classes in some areas. In 2019-2020 about 30% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Nova Southeastern University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value places for healthcare students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the large private not-for-profit school awarded 107 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
NUS Florida graduate students pay an average of $22,790 in tuition and fees each year.
Online graduate courses are available at NUS Florida, 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 52% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
University of Miami came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida ranking. U Miami is a private not-for-profit institution located in Coral Gables, Florida. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 24 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at U Miami are $41,036 a year. Graduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $26,723 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at U Miami. During the 2019-2020 year, about 29% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
U Miami also took the #2 spot in our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida rankings.
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*These averages are for the top 10 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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