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Best Value Plumbing & Water Supply Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

2023 Best Value Plumbing & Water Supply Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$15,363 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$36,391 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Plumbing & Water Supply Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Plumbing & Water Supply is the #32 most popular major in the country with 2,888 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which trade school program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Plumbing & Water Supply Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate programs for plumbing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Plumbing & Water Supply

Our analysis found Porter and Chester Institute of Stratford to be the best value school for plumbing & water supply students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in the New England Region . Located in the medium-sized city of Bridgeport, Porter and Chester Institute is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Porter and Chester Institute are $15,856 a year.

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The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Porter and Chester Institute of Hamden helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value plumbing & water supply schools in the New England Region . Porter and Chester Institute of Hamden is a small private for-profit school located in the suburb of Hamden.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Porter and Chester Institute of Hamden are $14,870 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Industrial Management Training Institute. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Plumbing & Water Supply Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Industrial Management Training Institute is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the midsize suburb of Waterbury.

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Best Plumbing & Water Supply Colleges by State

Explore the best plumbing & water supply schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 6
Maine 35
Connecticut 69
Rhode Island 26

Plumbing & Water Supply is one of 6 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Plumbing Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Plumbing Technology/Plumber 2,209
Pipefitting/Pipefitter & Sprinkler Fitter 663
Other Plumbing & Related Water Supply Services 11
Well Drilling/Driller 5

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical & Power Transmission Installers 26,459
Building Management & Inspection 5,269
Carpentry 3,899
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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Tomwsulcer.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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