2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Utah
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Teaching Degree Search has developed this Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Utah ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Utah to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for teaching students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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.
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Top Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Utah
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Our analysis found Brigham Young University - Provo to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Utah. This large private not-for-profit school is located in Provo, Utah, and it awarded 29 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
BYU graduate students pay an average of $7,700 in tuition and fees each year.
BYU 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, 72% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
BYU also made our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Utah list, coming in at #1.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Utah State University is a great place for teaching students working on their doctor’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. Utah State University is a large public school located in Logan, Utah that handed out 16 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
USU graduate students pay an average of $23,225 in tuition and fees each year.
Online graduate courses are available at USU, 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.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, USU is ranked #2 for overall quality in Utah.
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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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