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2023 Most Popular Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut

3 Schools Ranked
$25,906 Avg Student Debt

It's not easy to decide which teaching program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Connecticut to see which online graduate certificate programs were the most popular for teaching students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

Learn more about these popular schools with online programs:

#1

Sacred Heart University

Fairfield, Connecticut
79 Total Awards

Our analysis found Sacred Heart University to be the most popular school for teaching students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Connecticut. Sacred Heart University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in Fairfield, Connecticut that handed out 79 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Around 68% of those degree recipients were women.

To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 64% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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#2

Post University

Waterbury, Connecticut
12 Total Awards
$7,700 Average Tuition & Fees
$28,300 Avg Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you attend Post University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut list. Waterbury, Connecticut is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out graduate certificates to 12 students in 2020-2021.

On average, graduate certificate students take out $28,300 in loans while pursuing their degree. Of those students who received their degree, 92% were women.

During the 2019-2020 year, about 96% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

Full Post University Report

#3

Fairfield University

Fairfield, Connecticut
10 Total Awards
$19,498 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Fairfield University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular teaching schools in Connecticut. Fairfield U is located in Fairfield, Connecticut and has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 graduate certificates to qualified students.

Around 70% of those degree recipients were women.

In 2019-2020 about 78% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Full Fairfield University Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 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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