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2023 Best Value Construction Trades Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Construction Trades Basic Certificate School for You
With 40,802 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, construction trades is the #6 most popular major in the United States.
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which trade school program is right for you. 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 Construction Trades Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.
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 Construction Trades Basic Certificate School
Our analysis found Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology to be the best value school for construction trades students who want to pursue a basic certificate in the New England Region . BFIT is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at BFIT are $17,550 per year.
Read full report on Construction Trades at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Request InformationBest Construction Trades Colleges by State
Explore the best construction trades schools for a specific state in the New England region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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New Hampshire | 37 |
Connecticut | 545 |
Maine | 197 |
Rhode Island | 122 |
Massachusetts | 114 |
Majors Related to Construction Trades
Construction Trades Majors to Study
Major | Annual Graduates |
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Electrical & Power Transmission Installers | 26,459 |
Building Management & Inspection | 5,269 |
Carpentry | 3,899 |
Plumbing & Water Supply | 2,888 |
Construction | 1,813 |
Masonry | 284 |
Other Construction | 190 |
Most Popular Majors Related to Construction Trades
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Personal & Culinary Services | 149,352 |
Mechanic & Repair Technologies | 105,741 |
Precision Production | 55,411 |
Transportation & Materials Moving | 33,306 |
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.