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2023 Best Value Woodworking Basic Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$6,321 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Woodworking Basic Certificate School for You

Woodworking is the #47 most popular major in the country with 435 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Woodworking Basic Certificate Schools ranking. This report analyzed 5 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for woodworking students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.


 

2023 Best Value Woodworking Basic Certificate Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Woodworking Basic Certificate Colleges.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Woodworking

Our 2023 rankings named Northcentral Technical College the best value school in the United States for woodworking students working on their basic certificate. North Central Technical College is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of Wausau.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at North Central Technical College are $5,512 a year.

North Central Technical College excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Woodworking Basic Certificate Trade Schools list.

Read full report on Woodworking at Northcentral Technical College

#2

Hennepin Technical College

Brooklyn Park, MN

The excellent basic certificate programs at Hennepin Technical College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value woodworking schools in the United States. Hennepin Technical College is a small public school located in the suburb of Brooklyn Park.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Hennepin Technical College are $5,881 per year.

Hennepin Technical College also claimed a spot on our Best Woodworking Basic Certificate Trade Schools list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Woodworking at Hennepin Technical College

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Moraine Park Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Woodworking Basic Certificate Schools list. Moraine Park Technical College is a small public school located in the small city of Fond du Lac.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Moraine Park Technical College are $6,793 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Moraine Park Technical College also did well on our Best Woodworking Basic Certificate Trade Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Woodworking at Moraine Park Technical College Report

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Savannah Technical College is a great value for woodworking students working on their basic certificate. Located in the midsize city of Savannah, Savannah Tech is a public school with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Savannah Tech are $5,442 per year.

Full Woodworking at Savannah Technical College Report

Out of the 5 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Central New Mexico Community College landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the city of Albuquerque, CNM is a public school with a fairly large student population.

CNM undergraduate students pay an average of $7,978 in tuition and fees each year.

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Woodworking by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

Woodworking is one of 5 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Woodworking Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Cabinetmaking & Millwork 340
Furniture Design & Manufacturing 42
General Woodworking 38
Other Woodworking 15

Related Major Annual Graduates
Precision Metal Working 54,790
Other Precision Production 67
Leatherworking & Upholstery 46
Precision Production Trades 44
Boilermaking 29

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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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