2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools and bootcamps with offerings that you might find attractive.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in Washington to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for teaching 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 Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington
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Our 2023 rankings named Washington State University the best value school in Washington for teaching students working on their graduate certificate. This large public school is located in Pullman, Washington, and it awarded 360 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Wazzu are $28,190 per year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at Wazzu. During the 2019-2020 year, about 30% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Wazzu also took the #1 spot in our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington rankings.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at City University of Seattle helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Washington. City University of Seattle is a small private not-for-profit school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 21 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at CityU are $11,812 per year.
One thing to take note of is that CityU does offer online graduate classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 79% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
CityU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Whitworth University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington list. Whitworth is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Spokane, Washington. It awarded 20 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Whitworth are $12,456 per year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at Whitworth. In fact, around 10% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Whitworth also made our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington list, coming in at #3.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Eastern Washington University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington list. EWU is a public institution located in Cheney, Washington. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 39 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at EWU are $28,965 per year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at EWU. In 2019-2020 about 92% 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, EWU is ranked #5 for overall quality in Washington.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Seattle Pacific University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington list. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Seattle, Washington, and it awarded 255 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SPU are $24,273 a year.
SPU 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. In fact, around 83% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
SPU also took the #2 spot in our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Washington rankings.
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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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