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Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut

2023 Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$15,363 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$31,988 Avg Salary

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

With 197 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, heating, air conditioning, ventilation & refrigeration is the #13 most popular major in Connecticut.

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 Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Connecticut to see which undergraduate 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. 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 Connecticut Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling

Our 2023 rankings named Porter and Chester Institute of Stratford the best value school in Connecticut for heating, air conditioning, ventilation & refrigeration students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Bridgeport, Porter and Chester Institute is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Porter and Chester Institute are $15,856 a year. The average amount in student loans that hvacr majors at Porter and Chester Institute take out while working on their Undergraduate Certificate is $13,945. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $144.

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The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Porter and Chester Institute of Hamden helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value heating, air conditioning, ventilation & refrigeration schools in Connecticut. Porter and Chester Institute of Hamden is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Hamden.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Porter and Chester Institute of Hamden are $14,870 per year. On average, hvacr graduates from Porter and Chester Institute of Hamden take out $13,710 in student loans while working on their Undergraduate Certificate.

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The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Industrial Management Training Institute helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value heating, air conditioning, ventilation & refrigeration schools in Connecticut. Industrial Management Training Institute is a small private for-profit school located in the midsize suburb of Waterbury.

After completing their Undergraduate Certificate, hvacr graduates from Industrial Management Training Institute carry an average student debtload of $7,910.

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

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

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 239
Maine 103
Rhode Island 74
New Hampshire 37

Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration is one of 7 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

HVACR Concentrations

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 3 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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