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Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Basic Certificate Schools in Florida

2023 Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Basic Certificate Schools in Florida

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$13,152 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Basic Certificate School for You

With 1,775 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, heating, air conditioning, ventilation & refrigeration is the #11 most popular major in Florida.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Basic Certificate Schools in Florida to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Florida to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for hvacr students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

Best Florida Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling

Our analysis found College of Business and Technology-Hialeah to be the best value school for heating, air conditioning, ventilation & refrigeration students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Florida. CBT College - Hialeah is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Hialeah.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at CBT College - Hialeah are $13,152 a year.

CBT College - Hialeah also took the #3 spot in our Best Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Florida rankings.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Pinellas Technical College-St. Petersburg is a great value for heating, air conditioning, ventilation & refrigeration students working on their basic certificate. Located in the city of Saint Petersburg, Pinellas Technical College -St. Petersburg is a public college with a small student population.

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Best Value Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
South Carolina 307
Georgia 1,298
Arkansas 274
North Carolina 1,102
West Virginia 46
Virginia 571
Louisiana 417
Tennessee 431
Alabama 271
Kentucky 753
Mississippi 294

One of 7 majors within the trade school area of study, heating, air conditioning, ventilation & refrigeration has other similar majors worth exploring.

HVACR Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Maintenance Technology/Technician 21,891

Related Major Annual Graduates
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair 63,451
Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance 8,446
Electronics Maintenance & Repair 8,127
Precision Systems Maintenance 2,185
Mechanic & Repair Tech (Other) 1,184

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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