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2023 Best Value Information Technology Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$20,605 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$28,009 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Information Technology Undergraduate Certificate School for You

With 40,555 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, information technology is the #3 most popular major in the United States.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for computer science students. 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 that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Computer Science Degree Search has created the Best Value Information Technology Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate programs for IT 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.

2023 Best Value Information Technology Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Information Technology Undergraduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Information Technology

Our analysis found College of Western Idaho to be the best value school for information technology students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in the Rocky Mountains Region . Located in the rural area of Nampa, CWI is a public school with a large student population.

CWI undergraduate students pay an average of $7,344 in tuition and fees each year. On average, IT graduates from CWI take out $14,704 in student loans while working on their Undergraduate Certificate.

CWI not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Information Technology Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.

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#2

Salt Lake Community College

Salt Lake City, UT

The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Salt Lake Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value information technology schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . Salt Lake Community College is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Salt Lake City.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Salt Lake Community College are $12,734 per year.

Salt Lake Community College not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Information Technology Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.

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The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at The University of Montana helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value information technology schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . UM is a fairly large public school located in the city of Missoula.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UM are $28,476 a year.

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Best Information Technology Colleges by State

Explore the best information technology schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Montana 3
Wyoming 19
Colorado 326
Utah 2,982
Idaho 98

One of 10 majors within the computer science area of study, information technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

IT Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Computer & IS Security 22,829
Network & System Administration/Administrator 5,501
Information Technology Management 4,009
Computer Support Specialist 3,176
System, Networking, & LAN/WAN Management/Manager 2,077
Information Technology Project Management 2,076
Web/Multimedia Management & Webmaster 887

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems 88,434
Computer Science 59,565
Information Science 18,325
Computer Systems Networking 14,700
Computer Software & Applications 14,336

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Craig Dennis.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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