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2023 Best Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Basic Certificate Schools in Virginia
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Basic Certificate School for You
In 2021-2022, vehicle maintenance & repair students earned 595 degrees and certificates from a Virginia school, making the subject the 9th in the state.
There are so many trade school programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Basic Certificate Schools in Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Virginia to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for vehicle repair students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Virginia Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Vehicle Maintenance & Repair
Our analysis found Tidewater Community College to be the best value school for vehicle maintenance & repair students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Virginia. Tidewater Community College is a large public school located in the medium-sized city of Norfolk.
Tidewater Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $5,561 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
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The excellent basic certificate programs at Northern Virginia Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value vehicle maintenance & repair schools in Virginia. Northern Virginia Community College is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Annandale.
Northern Virginia Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $5,565 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 Virginia Western Community College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Basic Certificate Schools in Virginia list. Virginia Western Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the medium-sized city of Roanoke.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Virginia Western Community College are $5,103 a year.
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Request InformationBest Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Colleges in the Southeast Region
Explore all the Best Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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South Carolina | 416 |
Georgia | 3,279 |
Arkansas | 945 |
North Carolina | 3,010 |
Florida | 3,722 |
West Virginia | 82 |
Louisiana | 761 |
Tennessee | 1,165 |
Alabama | 491 |
Kentucky | 2,936 |
Mississippi | 563 |
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Related Majors for Vehicle Repair
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair is one of 7 different types of trade school programs to choose from.
Vehicle Repair Concentrations
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration | 21,891 |
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).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Airman 1st Class Nigel Sandridge.
More about our data sources and methodologies.