2023 Best Value Trade School Associate Degree Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

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 Trade School Associate Degree Schools in Delaware ranking.

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.

Top Value Trade Associate Degree Schools in Delaware

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Delaware Technical Community College - Terry

Dover, Delaware

1,741 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Delaware

$11,808 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Delaware Technical Community College - Terry the best value school in Delaware for trade school students working on their associate degree. Located in Dover, Delaware, the fairly large public school awarded 1,741 diplomas to qualifed associate degree students in 2021-2022.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Delaware Tech are $11,808 per year. On average, associate degree students take out $10,189 in loans while pursuing their degree.

Online courses are available at Delaware Tech, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 43% took at least some of their classes online.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Delaware Tech is ranked #1 for overall quality in Delaware.

Full Delaware Technical Community College - Terry Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 1 schools only.

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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