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Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

2023 Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$17,061 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate School for You

In 2021-2022, 416 degrees and certificates were awarded to mental & social health services students who went to a Pennsylvania college or university. This makes it the #14 most popular major in the state.

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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Our analysis looked at 7 schools in Pennsylvania to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for mental health services students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

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

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Mental & Social Health Services

Out of the 7 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania landed the # 4 spot on the list. East Stroudsburg University is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of East Stroudsburg.

East Stroudsburg University undergraduate students pay an average of $10,687 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Community College of Allegheny County. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, CCAC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CCAC are $8,563 per year.

Full Mental & Social Health Services at Community College of Allegheny County Report

#6

Saint Vincent College

Latrobe, PA

Saint Vincent College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Located in the suburb of Latrobe, Saint Vincent is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Saint Vincent are $39,903 a year.

Saint Vincent did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Mental & Social Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Pennsylvania list.

Read full report on Mental & Social Health Services at Saint Vincent College

With a ranking of #7, Pennsylvania Highlands Community College did quite well on this year’s best value schools for mental & social health services students working on their basic certificate. Located in the suburb of Johnstown, Pennsylvania Highlands is a public college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Pennsylvania Highlands are $9,090 per year.

Full Mental & Social Health Services at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College Report

Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 553
New Jersey 150
Maryland 364
Delaware 44

Mental & Social Health Services is one of 11 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Mental Health Services Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor 8,344
Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling 5,915
Other Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions 3,697
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling 3,683
Clinical/Medical Social Work 2,864
Psychiatric/Mental Health Services Technician 2,762
Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling 2,419
Genetic Counseling/Counselor 299
Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling 217
Trauma Counseling 104
Medical Family Therapy/Therapist 12
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 12
Hospice and Palliative Care 3

Majors Similar to Mental Health Services

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
Health Sciences & Services 36,762

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 7 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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