2023 Best Value Trade School Associate Degree Schools in District of Columbia
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
It's not easy to decide which trade school program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience.
The Best Value Trade School Associate Degree Schools in District of Columbia ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in District of Columbia to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for trade school students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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Top Value Trade Associate Degree Schools in District of Columbia
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Our analysis found University of the District of Columbia to be the best value school for trade school students who want to pursue a associate degree in District of Columbia. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, the small public school handed out 200 associate degree awards in 2021-2022.
University of the District of Columbia undergraduate students pay an average of $13,004 in tuition and fees each year. Associate Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $18,665 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
One thing to take note of is that University of the District of Columbia does offer online classes in some areas. During the 2020-2021 year, about 25% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
University of the District of Columbia did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Associate Degree Trade Schools in District of Columbia list.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Trade School Associate Degree Schools in District of Columbia list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associate degrees to 22 students in 2021-2022.
GWU undergraduate students pay an average of $60,946 in tuition and fees each year.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at GWU. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 8% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
GWU also took the #1 spot in our Best Associate Degree Trade Schools in District of Columbia rankings.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 2 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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