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Best Value Construction Trades Basic Certificate Schools in Missouri

2023 Best Value Construction Trades Basic Certificate Schools in Missouri

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$16,960 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Construction Trades Basic Certificate School for You

Construction Trades is one of the most popular subjects to study in Missouri. With 295 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, it ranked 7th out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country.

The Best Value Construction Trades Basic Certificate Schools in Missouri 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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.


 

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Construction Trades Basic Certificate Colleges.

Best Construction Trades Basic Certificate School

#1

Ranken Technical College

Saint Louis, MO

Our analysis found Ranken Technical College to be the best value school for construction trades students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Missouri. Ranken Technical College is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Saint Louis.

Ranken Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $16,960 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Ranken Technical College also took the #1 spot in our Best Construction Trades Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Missouri rankings.

Full Construction Trades at Ranken Technical College Report

Best Value Construction Trades Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Construction Trades Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 605
Minnesota 1,185
Iowa 402
South Dakota 250
North Dakota 99
Nebraska 412

Construction Trades Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
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

Related Major Annual Graduates
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.

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