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2023 Best Value Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$9,362 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate School for You

Building Management & Inspection is the #26 most popular major in the country with 5,269 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

It's not easy to decide which trade school 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.

The Best Value Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for building management students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

2023 Best Value Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Check out the building management basic certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Building Management & Inspection

#1

North Hennepin Community College

Brooklyn Park, MN

Our 2023 rankings named North Hennepin Community College the best value school in the Plains States Region for building management & inspection students working on their basic certificate. Located in the large suburb of Brooklyn Park, North Hennepin Community College is a public school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at North Hennepin Community College are $5,050 a year.

North Hennepin Community College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Plains States Region list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Anoka Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Anoka Technical College is a small public school located in the large suburb of Anoka.

Anoka Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $6,075 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Anoka Technical College also did well on our Best Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Plains States Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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#3

Ranken Technical College

Saint Louis, MO

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ranken Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Ranken Technical College is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Saint Louis.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Ranken Technical College are $16,960 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Ranken Technical College also is in the top 15% of our Best Building Management & Inspection Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Plains States Region ranking.

Full Building Management & Inspection at Ranken Technical College Report

Best Building Management & Inspection Colleges by State

Explore the best building management & inspection colleges for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 60
Missouri 15
Minnesota 59
South Dakota 51
North Dakota 7
Nebraska 156

One of 6 majors within the trade school area of study, building management & inspection has other similar majors worth exploring.

Building Management Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Building/Property Maintenance 1,549
Building Construction Technology 1,448
Building/Construction Site Management/Manager 1,116
Other Building/Construction Finishing, Management, & Inspection 529
Building/Home/Construction Inspection/Inspector 261
Drywall Installation/Drywaller 92
Concrete Finishing/Concrete Finisher 84
Insulator 61
Painting/Painter & Wall Coverer 58
Glazier 33
Carpet, Floor, & Tile Worker 21
Roofer 17

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical & Power Transmission Installers 26,459
Carpentry 3,899
Plumbing & Water Supply 2,888
Construction 1,813
Masonry 284

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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