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Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee

2023 Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$4,405 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate School for You

Health Sciences & Services is the #16 most popular major in Tennessee with 171 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Trade College Search has developed this Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Tennessee to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for health science students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Colleges.

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Health Sciences & Services

Our analysis found Dyersburg State Community College to be the best value school for health sciences & services students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Tennessee. DSCC is a small public school located in the town of Dyersburg.

DSCC undergraduate students pay an average of $4,410 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Health Sciences & Services at Dyersburg State Community College Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Cleveland State Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee list. Cleveland State Community College is a small public school located in the small city of Cleveland.

Cleveland State Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $4,400 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Health Sciences & Services at Cleveland State Community College

Best Value Health Sciences & Services Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Health Sciences & Services Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
South Carolina 87
Georgia 1,261
Arkansas 1,299
North Carolina 203
Florida 4,124
Virginia 226
Louisiana 205
West Virginia 74
Alabama 216
Kentucky 364
Mississippi 325

One of 11 majors within the trade school area of study, health sciences & services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Health Science Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences 30,811
General Health & Wellness 5,951

Majors Similar to Health Science

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services 88,600
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 85,339
Allied Health Professions 83,905
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 83,587
Mental & Social Health Services 30,331

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 Sandra M. Palumbo.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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