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2023 Most Popular Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Utah

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A teaching student has lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Most Popular Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Utah ranking. This report analyzed 7 schools in Utah to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for teaching students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.

Learn more about these popular schools below:

#1

Western Governors University

Salt Lake City, Utah
137 Total Awards
$7,790 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Western Governors University the most popular school in Utah for teaching students working on their graduate certificate. Western Governors University is a large private not-for-profit school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 137 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 81% were women.

WGU is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.

Full Western Governors University Report

#2

Weber State University

Ogden, Utah
30 Total Awards
$8,647 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you attend Weber State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Utah list. This large public school is located in Ogden, Utah, and it awarded 30 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 57% were women.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at WSU. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 80% took at least some of their classes online.

Full Weber State University Report

#3

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah
28 Total Awards
$8,068 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Utah is a great place for teaching students working on their graduate certificate. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, the large public school awarded 28 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.

Around 46% of those degree recipients were women.

Online graduate courses are available at U of U, 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 68% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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9 Total Awards
$9,317 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Utah Valley University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular teaching schools in Utah. This large public school is located in Orem, Utah, and it awarded 9 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Around 78% of those degree recipients were women.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UVU does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 70% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#5

Westminster College Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah
$16,689 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 7 schools in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Westminster College Utah landed the # 5 spot on the list.

Online graduate courses are available at Westminster College Salt Lake, 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 9% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

Full Westminster College Utah Report

#5

Utah State University

Logan, Utah
$7,366 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Popular Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Utah list.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at USU. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 52% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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$17,416 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you attend Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Utah list.

Since the graduate programs at RMUoHP are primarily online school, so it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.

Full Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 7 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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