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2023 Best Value Carpentry Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

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Finding the Best Carpentry Basic Certificate School for You

With 38 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, carpentry is the #31 most popular major in Illinois.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Carpentry Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

Check out the carpentry basic certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Carpentry Basic Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named City Colleges of Chicago - Kennedy-King College the best value school in Illinois for carpentry students working on their basic certificate. Kennedy-King College is a small public school located in the large city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Kennedy-King College are $11,520 a year.

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Best Value Carpentry Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Carpentry Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 16
Indiana 342
Wisconsin 144
Ohio 8

One of 6 majors within the trade school area of study, carpentry has other similar majors worth exploring.

Carpentry Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Carpentry/Carpenter 3,899

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical & Power Transmission Installers 26,459
Building Management & Inspection 5,269
Plumbing & Water Supply 2,888
Construction 1,813
Masonry 284

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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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