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2023 Best Value Trade School Bachelor's 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.
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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in District of Columbia to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for trade school students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia
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Our 2023 rankings named Trinity Washington University the best value school in District of Columbia for trade school students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 205 bachelor’s degree awards in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Trinity College are $25,610 per year. Bachelor’s Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $32,031 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
Online courses are available at Trinity College, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2020-2021 year, about 84% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
Trinity College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in District of Columbia list.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Georgetown University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Trade School Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, the large private not-for-profit school handed out 2,223 bachelor’s degree awards in 2021-2022.
Georgetown undergraduate students pay an average of $62,051 in tuition and fees each year. On average, bachelor’s degree students take out $15,635 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Online courses are available at Georgetown, 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 39% took at least some of their classes online.
Georgetown did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in District of Columbia list.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Howard University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Trade School Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia list. Howard is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1,292 bachelor’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Howard are $31,050 per year. By the time they get their bachelor’s degree, students from this school have racked up an average of $23,051 in student loans.
One thing to take note of is that Howard does offer online classes in some areas. During the 2020-2021 year, about 95% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
Howard also took the #4 spot in our Best Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in District of Columbia rankings.
The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at George Washington University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value trade school schools in District of Columbia. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 3,466 students in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at GWU are $60,946 a year. On average, bachelor’s degree students take out $20,763 in loans while pursuing their degree.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at GWU. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 8% took at least some of their classes online.
GWU also took the #2 spot in our Best Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in District of Columbia rankings.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 4 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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