2023 Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Kansas
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
It's not easy to decide which healthcare program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.
The Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Kansas ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 5 schools in Kansas 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.
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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Kansas
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Our analysis found University of Kansas to be the best value school for healthcare students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Kansas. University of Kansas is a large public school located in Lawrence, Kansas that handed out 27 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
KU graduate students pay an average of $25,007 in tuition and fees each year.
Online graduate courses are available at KU, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 69% took at least some of their classes online.
KU also made our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Kansas list, coming in at #1.
Out of the 5 schools in Kansas that were part of this year’s value ranking, Washburn University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Topeka, Kansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out graduate certificates to 54 students in 2020-2021.
Washburn University graduate students pay an average of $19,316 in tuition and fees each year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Washburn University. In fact, around 48% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Washburn University did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Kansas list.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at Wichita State University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in Kansas. Wichita State University is a fairly large public school located in Wichita, Kansas that handed out 6 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WSU are $15,323 a year.
Online graduate courses are available at WSU, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. 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.
WSU also made our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Kansas list, coming in at #5.
Out of the 5 schools in Kansas that were part of this year’s value ranking, Kansas State University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, the large public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at K -State are $23,949 per year.
Online graduate courses are available at K -State, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In fact, around 52% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, K -State is ranked #3 for overall quality in Kansas.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at MidAmerica Nazarene University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in Kansas. MNU is located in Olathe, Kansas and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 graduate certificates to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at MNU are $13,024 a year.
MNU does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 48% took at least some of their classes online.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, MNU is ranked #4 for overall quality in Kansas.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 5 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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